188 CITLPEPEB'S GOMPLBTB HESBAL. 



every one upon a long foot-stalk ; but those that grow 

 up higher with the stalk, encompass it about The stalk 

 is round and strong, crested with joints and leaves, divid- 

 ed, shaip and prickly ; the branches rising from thence, 

 which have likewise other small branches, each of them 

 having several round prickly heads, with many small, 

 jagged, prickly leaves under them, standing like a star, 

 and sometimes found greenish or whitish ; the root grows 

 to eight or ten feet in length, set with circles on the up- 

 per part, cut smooth, and without joints lower down, 

 orownish on the outside, and very white within, with a 

 pith in the middle, of a pleasant taste, but much more^ 

 oeins artificially preserved, and candied with sugar. 



PlcKe. — It is found plentifully about the sea-coast. 



Time, — It flowers at the end of summer, and gives ripe 

 seed within a month afterwards. 



Oovemment and Virtues. — Sea Holly is under the Moon: 

 the roots are hepatic and diuretic, opening obstructions of 

 the liver, helping the jaundice and dropsy, provoking 

 uhne, and easmg the strangury. Candied with sugar, the 

 roots are very restorative, good for consumptive persons, 

 and those wasted with long illness and too much venery, 

 thev are reckoned strengtheners to the parts of generation, 

 and are recommended for the lues venerea and gonorrhoea. 



HOLLYHOCKS (GARDEN.)— M^^/^a Rosea.) 



Descrip, — This is a tall plant, six or seven feet high, 

 with thick round stalks, and large hairy round leaves; the 

 lowers grow upon the stalk, coming forth with the leaves, 

 being very large, of one leaf cut into five segments, of a 

 pale red colour, having a spiked umbo in the middle, full 

 of dusty apices. The roots are branched, white and Large. 



Plao0, — It grows only in gardens. 



THme. — It flowers in July and August. 



Oovemment and Virtues. — This species of mallows is of 

 the nature of Common Marsh -mallows, but less mollify- 

 ing ; it is mostly used in gargles for the swelling of the 

 tonsils, and the relaxation of the uvula. All the parts 

 of the plant have a rough and austere taste, but more es- 

 pecially the root, which is of a very binding nature, and 

 may be used to advantage both inwardly and outwardly, 

 for incontinence of urine, immoderate menses, bleeding 

 wounds, spitting of blood, the bloody-flux, and other fluxes 

 of the belly. It is also of efficacy in a spongy state of the 



