Id4 OULPIPIr's COMPLXTl HBRBAL. 



Place, — This herb growa in wet grounds. 



Time. — It springs up in April, and its catkins in July ; 

 it seeds in August, and perisnes.in winter. 



Oavemment and Virtues. — This herb belongs to Saturn. 

 It is very powerful to stop bleeding either inward or out- 

 ward, the juice of the decoction being drunk, or the juice, 

 decoction, or distilled water applied outwardly. It also 

 stays laxea or fluxes in man or woman, and heals the in> 

 ward ulcers, and the excoriation of the entrails, bladder, 

 &c. It solders together the tops of green wounds, and 

 cures all ruptures in children. The decoction, taken in 

 wine, provokes urine, and helps the stone and strangury ; 

 and the distilled water drank two or three times a day, 

 and a small quantity at a time, also eases the entrails or 

 guts, and is effectual in a cough that comes by distillation 

 from the head. The juice or distilled water, used as a 

 warm fomentation is of service in inflammations, pustules 

 or red wheals, and other breakin^s-out in the skin, and 

 eases the swelling heat and inflammation of the funda- 

 ment, or piivy parts, in men or women. 



ILOnSE-TOl!^GlJK—( ffippoglossum,) 



Descrip. — The root of this plant has a thick head, from 

 which spring several hard whit« thready fibres. The stalks 

 are about six or eight inches high, tough and flexible, it 

 has lar^ nervous leaves, pointed at the ends, thick and 

 full of haid veins, rising sometimes alternately, and some- 

 times two opposite ; on the middle of the upper part of 

 each leaf, but in shape or make like the former; at the 

 setting on of this grow one or two small mossy flowers, 

 which are succeeded by round red berries. 



Place. — It is cultivated only in botanic gardens. 



Time. — It flowers in June and July. 



Government and Virtues. — This plant is under Mars in 

 Libra. It is heating and drying ; and serviceable in dis- 

 orders and suffocations of the womb, and hysteric fits, as 

 likewise to hasten the birth, expel the afterbirth, and pro- 

 cure the catamenia : but it is very rarely used. There is 

 a lesser species, more compaon, but it does not possess as 

 many virtues. They are b<>th very drying and astringent, 

 and good for all sorts of fluxes, hemorrhages and bleedings, 

 both inward and outward, and to stren^hen the joints. 



