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Government and Virtues. — Venus claims this herb. It is 

 proper for those wounds that have inflammations, and ii 

 effectual to stay bleedings, vomiting and fluxes of all sorts, 

 bruises bj fails or otherwise, and helps ruptures, and wo- 

 meu who have over-flagging breasts, causing them to grow 

 less and hard, both when drank and outwardly applied ; 

 the distilled water drank for twenty days together, helps 

 conception, and to retain the birth, if the woman do some- 

 times sit in a bath made of the decoction of the herb. It 

 is also a good wound-herb both inwardly and outwardly, 

 by drinking a decoction, or bathing and fomenting, for it 

 dries up the humidity of the sores, and heals inflanimation. 

 It draws the corruption from, and heals ereen wounds ; 

 it curee all old sores, though fistulous and hollow. 



LADY'S SKOCK,—( Cardamine Pratensis,) 



Called also Cuckoo Flower. 



Deterip, — The root is composed of many small white 

 threads, from whence spring up divers long stalks of wing- 

 ed leaves, consisting of round, tender, dark green leaves, 

 set one against another upon a middle rib, the greatest be- 

 ing at the end, amongst which rise up divers tender, weak, 

 round, greeu stalks, somewhat streaked, with longer and 

 smaller leaves upon them; on the tops of which stand flow- 

 ers, almost like the stock gilliflowers, but rounder, and not 

 so long, of a blushing white colour ; the seed is reddish, and 

 grows to small bunches, being of a sharp biting taste, and 

 so is the herb. 



PlcLce. — They grow in wet places, on brook-sides. 



Time, — They lower in April and May, and the lower 

 leaves oontiDue green all the winter. 



OovemmerU and Virtttes. — They are under the dominion 

 of the Mood, and very little inferior to water-cresses in all 

 their operations ; they are good for the scurvy, provoke 

 urine, break the stone, and effectually -varm a cold and 

 weak stomach, restore lost appetite, and help digestion. 



LANG DE h(WY.--(Belminthia Echioides,) 



Called also Ox-Tougne. 



Detcrip. — A species of the Bugloss and Borage. It rises 

 from a tnick brown root, and sends forth large, rou^rh, 

 hairy leaves, half a foot long, narrow and sharp-pointed. 

 The stalks rise to the height of two or three feet, full of 

 short 8ti£f hairs, on which grow long narrow leaves set on 



