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•mail, short, hard, and stilf browu leaves ; the upper part 

 is bare to the top, on which erows a seed-vessel, covered 

 with a woolly, pointed reddish-yellow cap, which falls of 

 as the head grows ripe. The root is small and stringy. 



Place, — It grows on heathy barren and boggy ground, 

 and frequently on old ant-hills. 



Virtues. — This is rarely used, but it is very good to pre- 

 vent the falling off of the hair, and to make it grow thick, 

 being boiled in water or lye, and the head washed withit^ 



MAIDENHAIR (WHITE.)— Ujp^<mii*w Ruta 

 Muraria.) 



Called also Wall Rue. 



Descnp, — This is a small low plant, growing about two 

 or three mches high, its slender stalks being of a whitish 

 colour, whereon grow a few small roundish stiff leaves, 

 crenated a little about the edges, of a whitish-green co- 

 lour above, covered underneath, when come to its full 

 growth, with brown dusty seed. 



Place. — It grows on old stone walls and buildings, its 

 little fibrous root abiding several years. 



Virtues. — This is used in pectoral decoctions, and diure- 

 tic apozems. The decoction being drunk, helps those that 

 are troubled with cough, shortness of breath, yellow-iaun- 

 dice, diseases of the spleen, stopping of the urine, and helpf 

 to break the stone in the kidneys. It provokes womens* 

 courses, and stays both bleeding and fluxes of the stomach 

 and belly, especially when the herb is dry; for being green 

 it loosens the belly, and voids choler and phlegm from the 

 stomach and liver; it cleanses the lungs, and by rectifying 

 the blood, causes a good colour to the whole body. The 

 herb boiled in oil of camomile, dissolves knots, allays swel- 

 lings, and drys up moist ulcers. The lye made thereof is 

 singularly good to cleanse the head from scurf, and from 

 dry and running sores ; stays the shedding or falling of 

 the hair, and causes it to grow thick, fair, and well -co- 

 loured ; for which purpose boil it in wine, putting some 

 imallage-seed thereto, and afterwards some oil. 



MALLOWS {COMMON. y-(MalvaSi/lvestris.) 



Descrip. — The common Mallow grows three or four feet 

 high. The stalk is round, thick, and strong. The leaves 

 are roundish, but indented and divided at the edges ; and 

 the flowers are numerous, large, and red- The seeds are 



