



culpkper's complstb hxrbal. 2S5 



through loss of blood, and apply the same, mixed with ho- 

 ney and roein, to the wounds. As also, the roots boiled in 

 wine, for hurts, bruises, falls, blows, sprains, or disjointed 

 limbs, or any swelling pain, or ache in the muscles, sin- 

 ews, or arteries. The mucilage of the roots, and of linseed 

 and fenugreek put together, is much used in poultices, 

 ointments, and plasters, to mollify and digest hard swel- 

 lings, and the inflammation of them, and to ease pains in 

 any part of the body. The seed either green or dry, mix- 

 ed with vinegar, cleanses the skin of morphew, &c 



UANDRAKE.—(Mandragora.) 



Deacrip. — This has a large brown root, sometimes single 

 and sometimes divided into three parts, growing deep, 

 from which spring several large dark green leaves, a foo* 

 or more in length, and four or five inches broad, sharp 

 pointed at the ends, of a foetid smell ; from among these 

 spring the flowers, each on a separate footstalk, about the 

 height and size of a primrose, of a whitish colour, and of 

 one bell- fashioned leaf, cut into Ave segments, standing in 

 a lard« five-cornered calyx, and are succeeded by smooth 

 roand fruit, about as big as a small apple, of a deep yel- 

 low colour when ripe, and of a very strong smell. 



Place.— It comes from Spain, but grows in our gardens. 



Time, — It flowers here in July and August. 



Oovemment and Virtues. — It is governed by Mercury. 

 The fruit has been accounted poisonous, but without cause. 

 The leaves are cooling, and are used for ointments, and 

 other external applications. The fresh root operates veij 

 powerfully as an emetic and purgative, so that few consti- 

 tutions can bear it The bark of the root dried, acts as a 

 rough emetic. The root formerly was supposed to have the 

 human form, but it really resembles a carrot or parsnips 



MAPLE-TREE.— (^Jc«r.; 



There are many varieties of this tree, according to the 

 place of its growth, and the taste of the planter ; but the 

 principal ar^ *he Greater and the Less ; Greater striped- 

 leavea Maple ; Smaller or Common Maple ; another with 

 red seed ; Virginian Ash- leaved Maple ; Norway Maple, 

 with plane- tree leaves; Striped Norway Maple; Virginian 

 Scarlet- flowering Maple ; Sir Charles Wager's Alaple ; 

 American Sugar Maple ; Pennsylvania Mountain Maple ; 



