288 OXTLPEPEB'S complete HEftBlX. 



MOONWOET.— ("Omwrwto Lunaria.) 



Descrip. — It has one dark, green, thick and flat leal^ 

 standing upon a short footstalk, two fingers in breadth \ 

 when it flowers it bears a slender stalk, four or five inches 

 high, having one leaf in the middle, divided on both sides 

 into five or seven parts, each part is small like the middle 

 rib, broader forwards, pointed and round, resembling a half 

 moon, the uppermost parts being bigger than the lowest 

 The stalks rise above this leaf two or three inches, bearing 

 many branches of smaller tongues, of a brownish colour, 

 which, after continuing a while, resolve into a mealy dust. 

 The root is small and fibrous. This has sometimes divers 

 leaves like those before described, with many branches 

 arising from one stalk, each divided from the other. 



Place. — It grows on grassy hills and heaths. 



Time. — It is found only in April and May, 



Oovemment and Virtues. — The Moon owns this herb. It 

 is cold and drying, and is available for wounds both out- 

 ward and inward. The leaves boiled in red wine, and 

 drank, stay immoderate courses and the whites. It stays 

 bleeding, vomiting, and other fluxea It helps all blows 

 and bruises, and consolidates all fractures and dislocations. 

 It is ffood for ruptures, and is put into oils and balsams to 

 heal u'esb and green wounds. 



MOSS (GROUND.)— fZycA^n TerrestrU.) 



Descrip. — This grows in barren ground, and at the roots 

 of trees. It spreads on the ground, with numerous slen- 

 der flagellaj, having small triangular leaves set close to the 

 stalks, among which spring reddish stalks an inch long, 

 almost as fine as hairs, bearing on the tops little hollow 

 dusty cups, of a whitish colour. 



Place^ — It grows in our moist woods, in boggy ground, 

 in shadowy ditches, and such like places. 



Ocyvemment and Virtues, — It is under Saturn, and is 

 good to break the stone, to expel and drive it forth by 

 urine, if boiled in wine, and drank. The herb, bruised 

 and boiled in water, and applied, eases all inflammations 

 ind pains from a hot cause ; and is useful too to ease 

 the gout The tree moss is cooling and binding, and par- 

 takes of a digesting and mollifying quality. Each moss 

 partakes of the nature of the tree on which it grows, the 

 oak is binding, and of good effect to stay fluxes, vomiting 



