sit OULPSPSR's OOltPLBTS HERBAL. 



Time, — It flowers in March, the fruit is ripe in Aneust. 



Virtues,— Yery happy effects have been produced by the 

 nse of this plant in rheumatic fevers. It is a rough purga- 

 tive, and is an efficacious medicine for worms, out it re- 

 quires some caution in the administration, and might in 

 unskilful hands, be productive of dangerous consequences. 

 The whole plant has the same qualities, but the bark is the 

 strongest, and a dose of not more than ten grains should 

 be given. An infusion of the leaves is a good emetic and 

 purgative, and cures the dropsy. Dried and reduced to 

 powder, they are useful in the venereal disease. 



LENTILS.— C^Ehmm Lens.) 



Descrip, — ^This plant has many long-winged leaves, con- 

 sisting of many small oval pin nsB, set opposite, with clasp- 

 ers at the end of the leaf. The flowers are small and white, 

 standing for the most part singly on a lon^ foot-stalk, and 

 are succeeded by short flattish pods, containing two round 

 seeds less than tares, and flatter. 



Place. — They grow in fields in all parts of England. 



Time, — They flower in May, and the seed is ripe in July. 



Government and Virtues. — They are under Venus. The 

 flour or meal of them is goood as emollient cataplasms, and 

 stops fluxes. Eaten with their skins they bind the body, 

 ana stop looseness, but the liquid they are boiled in loosens 

 the belly ; the flower of them may be used outwardly in 

 cataplai&B for the same purposes as bean-flower. 



LETTUCE (COMMON GARDEN.)— ("Zoc^wca Sativa,) 



Government and Virtues, — The Moon owns it The iuice 

 mixed or boiled with oil of roses, applied to the forehead 

 and temples, procures sleep, and cures the head-ache pro- 

 ceeding from a hot cause ; being eaten boiled, it helps to 

 loosen the belly. It helps digestion, quenches thirst, in* 

 creases milk in nurses, especi^dly griping pains in the sto- 

 mach or bowels that come of choler. It abates bodily lust, 

 represses venereous dreams, being outwardly applied to the 

 testicles with a little camphire. Applied in the same man- 

 ner to the region of the heart, liver or reins, or by bathing 

 the said place with the juice of distilled water, wherein 

 some white sanders, or red roses are put : also it not only 

 represses the heat and inflammations therein, but comf orta 

 and strengthens those parts ; and also tempers the heat of 

 urine. The seed or distilled water works the same effects 



