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seeds in the berries beaten to powder being drunk in wine, 

 are good against the stone and dropsy. The distilled water 

 of the flowers stays the lax. The seeds cleared of the 

 down and bruised, being boiled in wine, are good for in- 

 ward pains. If the distilled water be appUed to any pUce 

 pierced with thorns or spUnters, it will draw them out. 



HAZEL NUT. — {Corylus AveUana.) 



De^crip. — The Hazel tree is of small magnitude, rising 

 from the root are a number of long, smooth, tough, pliable 

 branchea, bearing large, round, rough leavea, indented 

 about the ed^ea, before whose appearing there comes forth 

 on the branches a great many loug, loose juli, or catkins. 

 The nuts grow two, three, or four together, on one stalk, 

 covered with a husk, open and jagged at the top ; when 

 ripe, the shell is hard and brittle, having a sweet kernel 



Place, — This tree grows in the woods and hedges. 



Time, — It flowers in May. 



Oovemment and Virtues.— They are under the dominion 

 of Mercury. The parted kernels matie into an electuary, 

 or the milk drawn from them with mead or honied water, 

 is good to help an old cou^h, and a little pepper put in 

 draws rheum from the head. The dried husks and shells, 

 to the weight of two drams, taken in red wine, stays lazness 

 and womens' courses, the skins answer the same purpose. 



HEAJIT'S EASE.— C 7*0^ Tricolor,) 



Called also Fansies. 



Descrip. — From a long, slender, divided fibrous root, rise 

 numerous weak stalks, of a faint green ; they spread upon 

 the ground, and raise themselves up for flowering, and are 

 six or eight inches long, and brancned. The lower leaves 

 are short, roundish, and lightly indented ; but the upper 

 ones are longer and more deeply cut, and some towards 

 the top divided to the rib by numerous segments. The 

 flowers are of a beautiful purple, variegated with yellow ; 

 and there is more or less white or blue, among them. The 

 wild white violet is a species of this genus ; many are of 

 a white colour from being starved, and this is the case in 

 respect to the white violet. 



Place, — They are found wild in barren placet in our 

 ftelda, and cultivated often in our ganiens. 



TVuM.— They flower all the spring and summer long. 



Oowmmmeru and Virtue*. — The herb is really Saturnine, 

 MflMthing oold, vitoous, and slimy. A strong dscoctioo 



