OUI«PEPEB'8 COMPLETE HEBBAJU i8S 



gnen colour, feeling greasy or unctuous in handling. The 

 stalks grow about a foot high, with several of the like 

 leaves growing on them; and, on their tops, spikes of small 

 herbaceous flowers, inclosiug little round black seeds. 



Place, — It grows in waste places, amongst rubbish. 



Time, — It flowers in spring. 



Oavemment and Virtues, — It is under the dominion of 

 Mercury. This herb is detersive and diuretic, and ought 

 to have a place in vulnerary decoctions and fomentations. 

 It is preferred to spinach, and is much superior in firm- 

 ness and flavour. The young shoots, the succeeding 

 leaves, and at last the flowery tops, are fit for kit«hen pur- 

 poses. It is good for scurvy, and provokes urine ; out- 

 wardly it is much used in clysters, and a cataplasm of the 

 leaves helps the pains of the gout 



HERB CHRISTOPHER.— ("ilc^cpa Spicata,) ' 



Descrip. — This is a species of the Bane-berry. The root 

 is lone and thick, black on the outside, yellow within, 

 and o? a disagreeable taste. The first leaves are large, and 

 divided into a great mauy parts three together ; so that 

 Shey resemble some of the umbelliferous plants : they are 

 of a dusky green, and of a glossy surface. The stalk ie 

 round, green, upright, brancned, and a yard high ; the up- 

 per leaves resemble those of the root ; they are large, and 

 their separate parts are broad, serrated, and have also a 

 kind of trifid division. The flowers are small and white ; 

 they stand in clusters upon tender foot-stalks, forming a 

 kind of spike, and the berries are large, of a roundish, but 

 somewhat of an oblong figure, and black. 



Place^ — It is found in woods in our northern counties. 



Time. — It flowers in July, the berries ripen in August. 



OovemmerU and Virtues. — It is under the dominion of 

 Saturn. The berries are poisonous. Outwardly the leaves 

 are good for inflammations, and supply the place of Com- 

 mon Nightshade. They may also be applied with good 

 ■Qooees to hard tumours or swellings on the breast. 



HERB BjOBERT,^ Oeranium Robertianum. ) 



Descrip. — It rises up with a reildish stalk two feet hi^h, 

 having divers leaves tnereon, upon very long and reddish 

 foot-stalks, divided at the ends mto three or five divisions, 

 each of them cut in on the edges, some deeper than the 

 othen, aod all dented likewise about the edges, which 



