OTTLPIPBRI OOMPLSTl HimBAL. l87 



Fiac€. — It CT0W8 in wooda and copses, and sometimes in 

 the borders of fields and waste grounds, in many parts of 

 this country, and abundantly in the woods about Cbisle- 

 hurst aud Maidstone in Kent. 



Time,— They spring up in April or May, and flower 

 •oon after, and the berries are ripe in May and June. 



Oovemnieni and Virtries, — Venus owns it ; the leaves oi 

 berries are good as antidotes agaiust all kinds of poison, 

 especially that of ^iconites, and pestilential disorders. The 

 roots in powder, taken in wine, ease the pains of colic ; 

 the leaves are very effectual for green wounds, and to heal 

 filthy old sores and ulcers, and powerful to discuss all 

 tumours and swellings in the privy parts, the groin, or any 

 other part of the body, and to allay all inflammations. 

 The juice of the leaves applied to felons, or those nails of 

 the hands or feet that have sores or imposthumes at the 

 roots of thcin, heals them in a short time. 



HOLLY. HOLM, or HULVEB-BUSH.— (^/^«» 



Aqui/olium.) 



Descrit). — This is a well-known large bush. The bark 

 is whitisn on the trunk, but the young shoots are green. 

 The leaves are oblong, irregular at the edges and prickly ; 

 the flowers are greenish, and the berries black. Another 

 species has thinner leaves, and yellow berries. 



Place. — This is often planted as a garden-hedge. 



Time, — It flowers in May. 



Oovemment and Virtues.— The tree is Saturnine. The 

 berries expel, and are profitable in the colic The berries 

 have a strong faculty in them; if you eat a dozen of them 

 in the morning fasting, when they are ripe and not dried, 

 they purge the body of gross and clammy phlegm ; but it 

 you ary the berries, and beat them into a powder, they 

 bind the body, and stop fluxes, bloody-fluxes, and the 

 terms in women ; the bark and the leaves also are excel- 

 lent, being used in fomentations for broken bones, and 

 each memoers as are out of joint. 



HOLLY {SEA.}-'( Eryn^um Maritirmm.) 



Callbd also Sea Eryngo. 



Ducrip.—The first leaves of our Sea Holly are not lo 

 bard ana prickly as when they grow old, being almost 

 round, ana deeply dented about the edges, bard and sharp 



^nted, and a little cmmpled, of a bluish green colour, 



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