200 CXTIiPXPKB'B COMPLETE HERBAL. 



spoiled by the yellow jaundice, and taken with figs and nl- 

 kre, helps the (Iropsy and spleen ; being boiled with wine, 

 it is good to wash iuHammations, and takes away the blue 

 and black marks that come by strokes, bruises or falls, if 

 applied with warm water. It is an excellent medicine for 

 the quinsy, or swelling in the throat, to wash and gargle it, 

 when boiled with figs ; it helps to cure tooth-ache, if boil- 

 ed in vinegar, and the mouth rinsed with it. The hot va- 

 pours of the decoction taken by a funnel in at the ears, 

 eases the inflammations and singing noise of them. Being 

 bruised with salt, honey, and cumin seed put to it, helps 

 those stung by serpents. The head anointed with the oil, 

 kills lice, t^es away the itching of the head. It is good 

 for falling sickness, expectorates tough phlegm, and is ef- 

 fectual in all cold griefs, or diseases of the chest and lungs, 

 when taken as a syrup. The green herb bruised with su- 

 gar, quickly heals any cut or green wounds, if properly 

 applied. The pains and discolourings of bruises, blows, and 

 falls may be (Quickly removed by a cataplasm of the green 

 leaves sewed in a linen cloth, and put on the place. 



HYSSOP (HEDGE.)— COVo^io^a OffidnalU,) 



Descrip. — Two oi three sorts of this herb grow in this 

 country, the description of two I shall give. The first is a 

 smooth, low plant, not a foot high, very bitter in taste, 

 with many square stalks, diversely branched from the top 

 to the bottom, with divers joints, and two small leaves at 

 each joint, broader at the bottom than they are at the end, 

 A little dented at the edges, of a sad green colour, and full 

 of veins. The flowers stand at the joints, of a fair purple 

 colour, with some white spots \n them, in fashion like those 

 of dead nettles. The seed is small and yellow, and the roots 

 spread much under ground. The second seldom grows half 

 a foot high, sending up many small branches, whereon 

 grow many small leaves set one against the other, some- 

 what broad, but very short The leaves are like the flowers 

 in fashion, but of &pale reddish colour. The seeds are small 

 and yellowish. Tne root spreads like the other, neither 

 will it yield to its fellow one ace of bitterness. 



Place, — They grow in low wet grounds, and by the wa- 

 ter-side43 ; the last may be found on Hamj)stead Heath, 

 and in the north of Scotland. 



TVme, — They flower and seed in June and July. 



Oovemment and Virtues, — They are heibs of Mara, and 



