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weed ; the Mouse-ear Hawk-weed, with bare green stalks 

 and fairei jellow flowers ; the Auricular narrow-leaved 

 Hawk-weed ; the Mountain Hawk-weed, with a rou^h 

 bare stalk, and fine yellow flowers ; and the Scotch Hawk- 

 weed, the largest Hawk-weed of any, with a rough stalk, 

 and small yellow flowers. The virtues are the same in all. 



Place, — They grow about field-sides and path-ways io 

 the dry grounds of the hilly-part of Westmoreland. 



Time, — They flower and seed late in the summer. 



Oovemment and Virtues. — Saturn owns it. Hawk-weed 

 is coolinff, somewhat drying and binding, and good for the 

 beat of the stomach, and gna wings therein ; for inflam- 

 mations, and the hot fits of agues. The juice of it in wine 

 helps digestion, dispels wind, hinders crudities abiding in 

 the stomach, and helps the difficulty in making water, it 

 is good against all poisonous bites. A scruple of the dry 

 root given in wine and vinegar, is profitable for dropsy. 

 The decoction of the herb taken in honey digests phlegm, 

 and with hyssop helps the coughs The decoction of the 

 herb and wild succory with wine, helps the wind colic and 

 hardness of the spleen, it procures rest and sleep, hinders 

 Tenery, cools heat, purges the stomach, increases blood, 

 and helps diseases of the reins and bladder. Outwardly 

 applied, it is good for the defects and diseases of the eyes, 

 used with some womens' milk ; it may be used with suc- 

 cess for healing spreading ulcers. The green leaves bruis- 

 ed, with a little salt, applied to bums and scalds, greatly 

 helps them : as also iSt. Anthony's fire, and all pushes ind 

 eruptions, and hot and salt phlegm. Applied with meal 

 poultice, it eases and helps cramps and convulsions. The 

 distilled water takes away wrinkles, freckles, spots, &c. 



HAWTHORN.— Ci/«pi^i« OxyacarUha,) 



/>Mcn/>. —ITiis is well known. The young twigs are 

 reddish, clothed with small leaves, divided into three and 

 sometimes five segments, coming over against the thorns. 

 The flowers grow in clusters, consisting of five white 

 leaves, with roddish apices in the middle ; of a pleasant 

 tmell, and are succeeded by small, round, and umbelicated 

 berries, of a fine red colour, containing a pretty big stone 

 divided into two, and covered with a little pulp. 



Place, — These trees grow in hedges, and flower in May. 



Tide — The berries or haws are ripe in September 

 The flowers and fruit are used. 



Government and Virtue*.— It is a tree of Mars. Th* 



