17S -TTTLPBPSR'S COMPLETE HERBAL. 



them. It Btajs all fluxes, as the lax, bloody flux, se- 

 mens' courses, and bleeding of wounds, and takes away 

 inflammations rising upon pains of the heart ; it is no less 

 helpful for foul ulcers hard to be cured ; as also for can- 

 kers or fistulaa The distilled water eflectuallj perform! 

 the same things. 



GROUND PINE (COMMON. )-Y4^a CKamoepityt,) 



Descrip, — The root is long, slender, and divided. Th« 

 stalks are numerous, weak, and three inches high ; they 

 are or a greyish colour, much branched, and covered thick 

 with leaves. These stand in pairs at small distances, and 

 they have numerous young ones in their bosoms ; they are 

 of a pale yellowish green, oblong, narrow, and at the end 

 divided into three points. The flowers rise from the blos- 

 soms of the leaves, and are small and yellow ; but the 

 a pper lip la spotted with purple on the inside. 



Place. — It grows in fallow fields and chalky groundi, 

 particularly in Kent, in great plenty. 



Time.— It flowers in June and July. 



Oovemment and Virtues. — Ground Pine is a martial 



Slant, hot and dry, warming and strengthening the nerves ; 

 elps the palsy, gout, sciatica and rheumatism, the scur- 

 ry, and all p ains of the limbs. It is a strong diuretic, 

 opens obstructions of the womb, and powerfully promotes 

 the menses, it ought not to be given to pregnant women. 



GROUNDSEL (COMMON,)— (Senecio Vulgaris,) 



Deecrip. — The stalk is of a round green, rather brownish 

 colour, spreading towards the top into branches, set with 

 long and somewhat narrow leaves, cut with deep irregular 

 notches about the edges. The stalk is tender, iuicy, weak, 

 and about eight inches high. At the tops of the branches 

 stand many small green heads, out of which grow many 

 small yellow threads, or thrums, which are the flowers, 

 and are poor and numerous. These continue many days 

 blown in this manner, before they pass into down, and, 

 with the seed are carried away by tne wind. The root is 

 small and stringy, and soon perisnes, and as soon rises up 

 again of its own sowing, so that it is seen often in one 

 year, both green, in flower, and in seed. 



Place. — This annual weed mws everywhere in fields 

 jmd gardens, both in tilled and untilled ground. 



Tiine* — It flowers all the summer round. 



