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stalk grows about a foot high, reddish, with a succulent 

 bark, covering a pithy substance, the leaves on the top 

 are thinner and longer than those below ; from the top 

 of these stalks rise reflected spikes of starry flowers made 

 up of several nanow, sharp-pointed, reddish petals, set 

 about a greenish hollow crown, which is afterwards en- 

 larged into small, hollow, horned pods or seed-vessels, 

 which inclose very small seed. The root is long, woody, 

 and full of fibres; 



Place. — It grows on the tops of houses in this country. 



Time. — It flowers in July. 



Oovemment and Virtties. — It is an herb of Jupiter. Our 

 ordinary Houseleek is good for the inward heats as well as 

 outward, and in the eyes or other parts of the body; a pos- 

 set made of the juice of Houseleek, is good in hot agues, 

 for it cools and tempers the blood and spirits, and quench- 

 es thirst, and is also good to stay hot deductions or sharp 

 and salt rheums in the eyes, the juice being dropped into 

 them, or into the ears, helps them. It helps also other 

 fluxes of humours in the bowels, and the immoderate 

 courses of women. It cools and restrains all violent in- 

 flammations, St. Anthony's fire, scalds and bums, the 

 shingles, fretting ulcers, cankers, tetters, ringworms, and 

 the like ; and much eases the pain of the gout proceeding 

 from any hot cause. The juice also takes away warts and 

 corns in the hands or feet, being bathed with it, and the skin 

 and leaves laid on them afterwards. It eases head-ache, and 

 distempered heat of the brain in frenzies, or through want 

 of sleep, if applied to the temples and forehead. The leaves 

 bruised and laid upon the crown of the head, stays bleed- 

 ing at the nose quickly. The distilled water of the herb 

 is profitable for all the diseases aforementioned. The leaves 

 gently rubbed on the places stung by nettles or bees, will 

 quickly remove the pain. 



HOUSELEEK (SMALL,)^ Sedum Minus.) 



Descrip. — The stalks of this Sedurtij before they flower, 

 are of a bluish green colour, beset, especially towards the 

 tops, with fat, thick, succulent, blunt- pointed, round leaves; 

 wnen they rise to flower, they have a few of the like leaves 

 growing alternately on them ; they have on their tops small 

 umbels, of white five-leaved flowers, which are succeeded 

 by as many little homed seed-vessels, full of very small 

 seed. The root is fibroufl. 



