S28 OULPKPIR'S COMPLETE HERBAL. 



thrum, of a dark reddish fistular flosculi, of a strong, some- 

 what resinous smell, standing in green scaly calyces. Tl»« 

 seed is large and crooked, of a brownish colour. 



Place. — It grows in gardens. 



Time.— It flowers in summer : the flowers are frequent- 

 ly double. The leaves and flowers are used. 



Oovemment and Virtues. — This plant is hot and dry, 

 therefore under the Sun. It is accounted cordial, alexi- 

 pharmic, good in all kinds of fevers ; it promotes sweat, 

 and is frequently used to drive out small-pox and measles; 

 it also helps the jaundice. A good quantity of the juice is 

 put into treacle water. The juice is recommended for sore 

 eyes, and to take away warta 



MASTERWORT.— ("/mpera^ona Ostruthium.) 



Descrip. — Common Masterwort has divers stalks of 

 winged leaves divided into sundry parts, three for the 

 most part standing together at a small foot-stalk on both 

 sides of the greater, and three likewise at the end of the 

 stalk, somewhat broad, and cut in on the edges into three 

 or more divisions, all of them dented about the brims, of a 

 dark green colour, from smaller leaves near the bottom rise 

 up two or three short stalks about two feet high, and slen- 

 der, with such like leaves at the joints which grow below, 

 with lesser and fewer divisions, bearing umbels of white 

 flowers, and after them, thin, flat black seeds. The root 

 is somewhat great, growing rather sideways than down 

 deep in the ground, shooting forth sundry heads, which 

 taste sharp, biting the tongue, and is the hottest and sharp- 

 est part 01 the plant, and the seed next unto it being some- 

 what blackish on the outside, and smelling well. 



Place. — It grows in gardens with us in England. 



Time. — It flowers and seeds about the end of August. 



Oovemment and Virtues. — It is an herb of Mars. The 

 root is hot, and very available in colds and diseases of the 

 head, stomach and body, dissolving very powerfully up- 

 wards and downwards. The root is of a cordial sudorific 

 nature, and stands high as a remedy of great efficacy in 

 malignant and pestilential fevers. It is most efficacious 

 when taken out of the ground, and if given in a light in- 

 fusion. It ik also used in a decoction with wine against 

 all cold rheums, distillation upon the lungs, or shortness 

 of breath. It provokes uriue, and helps to break the stone, 

 and expel the ;;rayel from the kidneys: provokes womens* 



