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plaiDts of a similar nature. Water Mint expels wind ont 

 of the stomach, ojiens the obstructions of the womb, and 

 produces catamenia. The juice dropped into the ears, eases 

 pain and helps deafness, though not much used. 



MINT (WILD, OE HORSE.)— (^JTenrAa Sytvettrii,) 



pescrip, — This Wild-Mint grows not so tall as Garden 

 Afint, or so much branched, having square hoary stalks, 

 with two long, sharp-pointed leaves, noary likewise, es- 

 pecially underneath, and serrated about the edges, without 

 any footstalks. The flowers grow at the end of the stalks, 

 in long narrow spikes, being small and purple. The whole 

 plant has a strong but not unpleasant smell. 



Virtites, — It is good for wind and colic in the stomach, 

 to procure the menses, and expel the birth and secundiues. 

 The juice dropped into the ears eases the pains of them, 

 and destroys the worms that breed therein. The juice laid 

 on warm, helps the king's-evil, or kernels in the throat. 

 The decoction or distilled water helps a stinking breath, 

 proceeding from corruption of the teeth ; and snuffed up 

 the nose, purges the head. It helps the scurf or dandruff 

 of the hestd used with vinegar. 



MISSELTOE.— (Tiwia Querous.) 



Descrip. — ^This plant fixes itself and takes root on tht 

 branches of trees. It spreads out into large bushes, hav- 

 ing many woody branches, covered with a yellow-green 

 bark, of different sizes, being full of joints that easily part 

 asunder, having at each two thick firm leaves, narrowest 

 at the bottom, and broader and round at the ends. It bears 

 several small yellow fou" leaved flowers, to which succeed 

 round, white, almost pellucid berries, as big as white cur- 

 rants, full of a tough viscid juice, in the middle of which 

 lies one flat heart-mshioned seed. It grows upon several 

 trees, as the apple, the crab, the hazel, the ash, the maple, 

 the lime, the willow, the whitethorn, and the oak; this last 

 is best of all. 



Oovemment and Viriuet. — This is under the dominion of 

 the Sun, with something of the nature of Jupiter. Both 

 the leaves and berries do heat and dry, and are of subtle 

 parts ; the bird-lime mollifies hard knots, tumours, and 

 imposthumes, ripens and discusses them, and draws forth 

 thick as well as thin humours from the remote parts of the 

 body, digesting and separating them, being mixe i with 



