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the stomach and bowels, such as flatulencies, and indiges- 

 tion ; an infusion of the whole plant is serviceable in ob- 

 structions of the viscera, and against tho jaundice. 



MAEJORA.M (SWEET.)— (Origanum Marjorana.) 



Sweet Marjoram is so well known that it is needless to 

 write any description of it, or of either Winter Sweet 

 Marjoram (Oric/anum Heracleoticum^) or Pot Marjoram 

 (Oriaanum Onttes.) 



Place. — It grows commonly in gardens; some sorts grow 

 wild in the borders of corn-fields and pastures. 



Time. — It flowers in the end of summer. 



QovemmerU and Virtues. — It is an herb of Mercury, and 

 under Aries, and is an excellent remedy for the brain and 

 other parts of the body. Our Common Sweet Marjoram 

 is warming and comforting in cold diseases of the head, 

 stomach, sinews, and other parts, taken inwardly or out- 

 wardly applied. The decoction thereof being drunk, helps 

 diseases of the chest, obstructions of the liver and spleen, 

 old griefs of the womb, and the windiness thereof, and the 

 loss of speech, by resolution of the tongue. The decoction, 

 made with some Pellitory of Spain, and long pepper, if 

 drunk, is good for dropsy, for those who cannot make wa- 

 ter, and against pains in the belly. It provokes womens* 

 courses, if put up as a pessary. Made into powder, and 

 mixed with honey, it takes away tho marks of blows, and 

 bruises ; it takes away the inflammation and watering of 

 the eyes, if mixed with fine flour, and laid into them. The 

 juice dropped into the ears, eases the pains and singing 

 Doise in them. It is profitably put into ointments and 

 salves that are warm, and comforts the outward pai-ts, as 

 the joints and sinews ; for swellings also, and places out 

 of joint. The powder snuff'ed up mto the nose provokes 

 sneezing, and thereby purges the brain ; chewed in the 

 mouth, it draws forth much phlegm. The oil is very warm 

 and comforting to the joints that are stiff, and the sinews 

 that are hard, to mollify and supple them. 



MARIGOLD {CO'RS.)—(Chrytanthemwn Segetwn.) 



Ih$erip. — This grows with leaves pretty thick and juicy, 

 of % pale yellow-green colour, broauer at the end than at 

 that part next the stalk, somewhat clammy in handling; the 

 ■talks grow a foot or more high, beset with smaller leaves. 

 TliS flowers grow singly at the end of the stalks, cousiBtiog 

 of a Ixiider of gold yellow petil, set about the middle 



