CULPEPSK*B COMPL.ETI HSBBAL. Sll 



caoBe of the hot aad subtle spirit wherewith it ii posses- 

 led. The oil used with the Oil of Spike, ia of a fierce and 

 piercing quality, and ought to be carefully used, a very 

 few drope being sufficient for inward or outward maladies 



LAVENDER (COTTON.)— (Zavanc?wZa Tamina.) 



Descrip. — This is a shrubby plant, with a roundish lea^ 

 holding its leaves all the winter. It has many woody, 

 brittle, hoary stalks, beset with long, white, hoary leaves, 

 that appear four-square, resembling the leaves of our com- 

 mon heath ; of a strong though not unpleasant scent, and 

 a bitter taste. On the tops of the branches stand Ions 

 stalks, each bearing a single naked flower, made up only oi 

 a thrum of small yellow flstular five-cornered flosculi, with- 

 out any border of petala; standing together in a scaly caljrx. 

 The seied is small, longish, and striated ; the root firm, 

 hard, and durable, divided into several fibrous branches. 



Place^ — It is a native of Italy, but is planted in oar gar- 

 dens, where it serves for borders and edgings. 



Tims. — It flowers in July and August 



Oovemment and Virtvss, — The leaves, and sometimes 

 the flowers are used ; it destroys worms, the leaves and 

 flowers being boiled in milk, and taken facing ; it is an 

 antidote for all sorts of poison, and the bites and stings of 

 venomous creatures, and good against obstructions of the 

 liver, the jaundice, and to promote the menses. A dram of 

 the powdered leaves taken every morning fasting, stops 

 the running of the reins in men, and whites in women. 

 The se«d beaten into powder, and taken as worm-seed, 

 kills the worms, not only in children, but also in people of 

 riper years; the herb acts the same, bein^ steeped in milk, 

 and the milk drank ; the body bathed with a decoction of 

 iU helps scabs and the itch. It is under Mercury. 



LAUREL (EVERGREEN, oe 8PURGE.)-Y2>apAn# 

 Laureola,) 



Deicrip, — This is a low shrub, seldom growing above 

 two or three feet high, with a woody stem about a finger 

 thick, covered with an ash-coloured bark ; it is divided to- 

 wards the top into several branches, clothed with thick, 

 long, smooth, and shining green leaves, which are found at 

 the tops of the branches. The flowers grow among these. 

 Tkej are small, considered singly, of a sad, yellowish green 

 •okKir, and unpleasant smelL The seed is roundish. 



Plac4. — It grows wild in the woods and hedges. 



