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by yenomous creatures. Two drams of the seed made into 

 powder, and drank in broth, expels choler or congealed 

 Dlood in the stomach. The seed taken in warm wine, is 

 recommended for sciatica, falling-sickness, and the palsj. 

 It is yalnerarj and abstersive, and opens obstructions and 

 scours the urinary passages. 



JULY FLOWER,— (Motthiala Inconcu) 



Called also Gilly-Flower and Wild-Pink. 



Descrip, — Thiis plant grows in almost every garden, and 

 is so well known, that it needs little to be said about it. 

 It has long, narrow, hoary, or whitish leaves, set alter- 

 nately on the stalks ; the flowers are large, of four leaves 

 each, sometimes white, red, and frequently striped, of a 

 pleasant, sweet scent The seed is flat and round, growing 

 in long hoary pods, divided in two parts in the middle. 



Place. — It grows only in gardens. 



Time. — It flowers about Midsummer. 



Oovemment and Virtues. — It is under Jupiter ; all the 

 species of Wild Pinks have the same medicinal virtues, and 

 tneir quality is principally in the flowers, the purple kind 

 possessing most ; they are cordial and cephalic ; good in 

 lain tings, head-aches, and other nervous aiaorder. A tinc- 

 ture of the flowers is the best medicine for these disorders. 



JUNIPER-TREE.— ("/umjDtfrw Communis.) 



Descrip. — This grows only to the size of a bush or shrub. 

 The branches are thick-set, with narrow stiff leaves, of a 

 bluish green colour, sharp and prickly at the ends ; the 

 flowers are small, mossy, and staminous; the berries round, 

 green for the first year, and afterwards of % dark purple 

 or black colour, each containing three-cornered seeos. 



Place. — It grows upon the heaths of this country. 



Time. — The berries are not ripe the first year, but con- 

 tinue creen two summers and one winter before they are 

 ripe, they are black, and ripen with the fall of the leaf, 



Oovemment and Virtues. — The berries are hot in the third 

 degree, and dry in the first, being counter- poison, and a 

 resister of the pestilence, and excellent against the bites of 

 yenomous beasts; it provokes urine, and is available in dy- 

 senteries and strangury. It is a remedy against dropsy, and 

 brings down the terms, helps the fits of the mother, expeli 

 the wind, and strengthens the stomach. Indeed there is 

 no better remedy for wind in any part of the body, or the 



