OTTLPEPBB'S OOXPLETl HERBAL. 21f 



if the herb be bruised and the jaice onlj applied. It ii 

 good as a gargle for sore-throats. The smoke drives away 

 flies and gnats, when they are troublesome. 



LOVAGE. — ( Ligusticum Leuuticum,) 



Descrip. — It has many long and great stalks, of large 

 winged leaves, divided into many parts, every leaf being 

 cut about the edges, broadest forward, and smallest at the 

 stalk, of a sad green colour, smooth, and shining, from 

 among which rise sundry strong, hollow CTeen stalks, five 

 or six, sometimes seven or eight feet hignt, full of joints, 

 but lesser leaves set on them than grow nelow ; and with 

 them towards the tops come forth large branches, bearing 

 at their tops large umbels of yellow flowers, and after them 

 flat brownish seed. The root grows thick, great and deep, 

 spreadin;^ much, and enduring long, of a brownish colour 

 on the outside, and whitish \vithin. The whole plant and 

 every part of it smells strong and aromatically. 



Place. — It is planted in gardens, where it grows large. 



Time, — It flowers in July, and seeds in August. 



Oavemment and Virtiies. — It is an herb of the Sun, un- 

 der the sign Taurus. It opens, cures, and digests humoun^ 

 and provokes womens' courses and urine. Half a dram at 

 a time of the dried root in powder taken in wine, warms a 

 cold stomach, helpA digestion, and consumes all raw anc 

 superfluous moisture therein; eases all inward ^ripings and 

 pains, dissolves wind, and resists poison and infection. The 

 decoction of the herb is a remeay for ague, and pains of 

 the body and bowels which proceed from cold. The seed 

 is efl'ectual for all the purposes aforesaid, except the last, 

 and works more powerfully. The distilled water helps the 

 quinsy in the throat, if the throat and mouth be garbled 

 with It, and it helps the pleurisy, if drank three or four 

 times. It takes away the redness and dimness of the eyei 

 if dropped into them ; it removes spots and freckles from 

 the face. The leaves bruised, and tried in hog's-lard, and 

 laid hot to any blotch or boil, will quickly break it. 



LUNGWORT.— CPu^moncPTKi Offlcinalis,) 



Deicrip. — This is a kind of moss that grows on oak and 

 beech trees, with broa^i, flrrevish, rough leaves, diversely 

 folded, crumpled, and gashed on the edges, some are spot* 

 ted on the upper aide. It never bears any stalk or flower. 



Oovfrnment and Kir^uM.— Jupiter owns this hefb. It 



