220 OXrLPEPBBB OOMPLXTE HXBBAL. 



is of great use in diseases of the lungs, and for cougha, 

 wheezings, and shortness of breath, which it cures, ft is 

 profitable to put into lotions to stay the moist humours 

 that flow to ulcers, and hinder their healing, as also to 

 wash ulcers in the privy parts. It is drying and binding, 

 good to stop inward bleeding, and the too great flux of the 

 menses. It is good for consumptions and disorders of the 

 breast^ boiling it in pectoral drinks, and making syrups of 

 it. It is commended as a remedy against yellow- jaundice. 



hVl^lKE.—(Lupinut,) 



Detcripj, — The white Lupine has a hairy stalk, on which 

 grow digitated leaves, set in a round compass, upon long 

 foot-stais, consisting of nine parts, narrow near the stalk, 

 and ending in an obtuse point, soft and hairy. The flow- 

 ers grow in verticillated spikes on the tops of the branches, 

 in shape of pea-blossoms, of a white colour, and are suc- 

 ceeded by upright flat hairy large pods, including three or 

 four flat white seeds. There are several kinds of Lupines: 

 the great white Lupine ; the spotted white Lupine ; the 

 blue Lupine, because it has blue flowers, and the small 

 blue Lupine. 



PlcLce. — They are sown every year in gardens. 



7\rM.— They flower in June, and the seed ripens in July. 



Government and Virtues, — They are governed by Mars 

 in Aries. The seeds are somewhat bitter in taste, opening 

 and cleansing, good to destroy worms, to bring down the 

 menses, and expel the birth and secundines. Outwardly 

 they are used against deformities of the skin, scabby ul- 

 cers, scald heads, and other cutaneous distempers. 



MADDER— ("^wtia Tinctorum.) 



Descrip, — The roots of Madder are thick, round, and 

 much branched, of a reddish colour, clear and transparent, 

 having a small slender hard tough string in the middle, of 

 a sweetish taste, with a little bitterness; from these spring 

 many sauare rough weak stalks, full of joints, about which 

 are set five or six long sharp-pointed leaves, that are broad- 

 est in the middle, and narrow at both ends, rough almost 

 to prickliness. The flowers grow in long spikes, coming 

 forth at the joints with the leaves, small and yellow, of 

 one leaf cut into four segments, each succeeded by two 

 small moist blackish berries, containing two round umbil- 

 licated seeds. 



