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^nifi, attended with looseness of the teeth, and soreiieas 

 in the mouth. Dried and reduced to powder, or boiled iu 

 wine, and partaken of freely, it prevents miscarriage, 

 helps ruptures, dissolves coagulated blood from falls, 

 blows, &o., and kills worms in children. 



HONEWORT (CORN.)— ("-Suon, Segetony or Cryptokenia 

 Canadensis,) 



Detcn'p. — This rises from a long, thick, white root, the 

 stalks are numerous, round, fleshy, and a foot and a half 

 high, of a pale and bluish colour. The leaves grow at equal 

 distances ; they are usually drooping, large, finely cut at 

 the edges, and pointed, sometimes spotted with white, the 

 colour is a bluish ereen. The flowers are few, and, like 

 the leaves of the plant, hang down ; they are yellow in the 

 upper part, and purple at the base, though some are white. 



Fiace.— It grows in corn-fields, and in thick hedges. 



Time, — It flowers in July. 



0<n>«rnment and Virtues. — It is a flower of the Sun ; a 

 mat vulnerary. The flowers contain a deal of honey- 

 juice, they are cooling and moistening, good for inflamma- 

 tions of the liver, St. Anthony's fire, r^ness and pimples 

 in the face, being applied to the parts affected as a cata- 

 plasm, or cloths dipped in the juice, laid on, and now and 

 then shifted ; made into a poultice with hogs'-lard, it 

 helps hot swellings and tumors. 



HONEWORT (SLENDER.)— ("/Swan Ammonium.) 



Descrip, — This is a species of stone parsley, a weak plant* 

 of two feet and a half in height ; the stalk is brown, and 

 very slender, supporting itself by leaning against the 

 bashes : the leaves are of a fine green ; the flowers are 

 ■mall and white : and the seeds are of an olive brown. 



Place. — It is found in damp thickets, and moist hedges. 



Tim^. — It flowers in July. 



Oavemment and Virtues. — This little plant is under the 

 dominion of Venus, iu the sign Cancer, and is excellent to 

 allay swellings, which are called Hones. The leaves are to 

 be f reah gathered, and beat in a mortar with a kind of paste. 

 UtK) <tre iben to be laid on a swelling that is red, pain* 

 /ul, and threatens bad counequences, which they disperse 

 It is good for disorders of the skin, and even in the king's- 

 evil. The Com ilonewor poflseases still more virtue. 



