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HARTS TONGUE.— CJ«p^^ium Scolopendrium or 

 Scolopendrium Oficinarum.) 



Descrip, — Tliia has divers leaves arising from the root, 

 every one j^everally ; which fold themselves in their first 

 sprin^ng and spreading ; thej are a foot lon^ when full 

 grown, smooth and green above, but hard and with little 

 sap in them, streaked on the back, thwart on both sides of 

 the middle rib, with small and somewhat long and brown- 

 ish marks ; the bottoms of the leaves are a little bowed on 

 each side of the middle rib, somewhat narrow with the 

 length, and a little small at the end. The root is of many 

 black threads, folded or interlaced together. 



Time. — Green all winter, but fresh leaves grow yearly, 

 Oovemment and Virtues. — Jupiter claims dominion over 

 this herb, and it is a good remedy for the liver, both to 

 strengthen it when weak, and ease it when afflicted ; a 

 syrup of it should be made, for I think the leaves are not 

 green all the year. It is commended for hardness and 

 stoppings of the spleen and liver, and the heat of the sto- 

 mach, lax, and the bloody-flux. The distilled water is 

 very good against the passions of the heart, to stay the 

 hiccough, to help the falling of the palate, and to stay the 

 bleeding of the gums, by gargling with it. 



HAWK-WEED (COMMON BROADLEAYED.)— 

 (Uyeracia Mxtrorum,) 



Descrip. — It has many large leaves lying upon the 

 ground, much torn on the sides like Dandelion, but with 

 greater parts, more like the smooth Sow-Thistle, from 

 among which rises a hollow, rough stalk, two or thi^ feet 

 high, oranched from the middle upward, whereon are set 

 at every joiut longer leaves, little or nothing rent or cut, 

 bearing at the top sundry pale ligulated yellow flowers, 

 consisting of many small, narrow leaves, broad pointed, 

 and uickea in at the ends, set in a double row or more, the 

 outermost being larger than the inner, which, from most 

 of the Hawk- weeds, (for there are many kinds) do hold, 

 which turn into down, and, with small brownish seed, is 

 blown away with the wind. The root is long, somewhat 

 greater, and with many fibres thereat. The most common 

 Hawk-weeds are tho«e here represc^nted, viz., the narrow- 

 leaved, with umbeliferous flowers ; the Wall Uawk-weed, 

 with hairy Htalks and leaves ; the Succory-leaved Hawk' 



