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Dies and forebead, eases the long-standing head-ache. The 

 *esh leaves boiled in wine, will cleanse old ulcers, if waah- 

 d with it. It also quickly heals green wounds, and is ef • 

 fectual to cure all burns and scalds, and all kinds of exul- 

 cerations coming thereby, or by phlegm or humours in 

 other parts of the body ; the juice of the berries or leaves 

 snuffed up the nose, purges the head and brain of thin 

 rheum that makes deflux^ons into the eyes and nose, and 

 cures the ulcers and stench therein ; the same dropped 

 into the ears, helps the old and running sores of them. 



JESSAMINE.—(Jcwminwwi OJicinale.) 



Descrip, — This tree or shrub shoots oat long, slender, 

 green twigs or branches, which must be supported, or else 

 they hang down ; they are clothed with long, pinnated 

 leaves, m«ule of several sharp-pointed pin nee, set opposite 

 to each other, with an odd one at the end, larger than the 

 rest. The flowers come forth among the leaves, several to- 

 gether on a common foot-stalk ; but each standing on a 

 slender short one of its own, being longish tubes, spread- 

 ing out at the top into five broad segments, standing in 

 very short calyces, so that they easily fall off, when full 

 blown : they are of a white colour, and a pleasant agreea- 

 ble smell ; each flower is succeeded by a berry, divided 

 into two parts, but seldom coming to perfection here. 



Plac€, — It is usually planted in gardens. 



Time, — It flowers in June and July. 



Oovemmmit and Virfitet, — Jessamine is a warm, cordial 

 plant, governed by Jupiter in the sign Cancer. The flow- 

 ers only are used. It w^rn^s the womb, and heals schirr- 

 thi therein, and facilitates the birth ; it is useful for cough, 

 difficulty of breathing, &c. The oil made by infusion of 

 the flowers, is used for perfumes. It disperses crude hu- 

 mours, and is good for cold and catarrhous constitutions, 

 but not for the hot. The oil is good also for hard and con- 

 tracted limbs, it opens, warms, and softens the nerves and 

 tendons, if used as a liniment to the parts, or taken in 

 drink, or clysters. It removes diseases of the uterus, and 

 ia of service in pituitous colics. A poultice of the leaves^ 

 boiled in wine, dissolves cold swelling and hard tumours. 



JEWS-EAK^ Exidia Auricula Judce.) 



Detcrip, — A membranaceous fungus which grows in the 

 •hap« of an ear, it ii luiiaUy ash-coloured beneath, black- 



