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milk ; from among these leaves spring up two or three 

 small hoary stalks a span high, with a few smaller leaves 

 thereon ; at the tops whereof stand usually but one flower, 

 consisting of many pale yellow leaves, broad at the point, 

 and a little dented in, set in three or four rows, the great- 

 er uppermost, a little reddish underneath about the edges, 

 especially if it grows in a dry ground ; which, after they 

 have stood long in flower, do turn into down, which, witn 

 the seed, is carried away by the wind. 



Place. — It grows in dry ditches, and ditch-banks. 



Time, — It flowers in June or July, and is green all winter. 



Government and Virtues. — The Moon owns this herb. 

 The juice taken in wine, or the the decoction drank, helps 

 the jaundice, if taken morning and evening. It is a special 

 remedy against the stone, and the pains thereof : and the 

 griping pains of the bowels. The decoction, with succory 

 and centaury, is efiectual to help the dropsy, and diseases 

 of the spleen. It stays the fluxes of the blood, either at 

 the mouth or nose ; it is good also for inward or outward 

 wounds, and stays bloody-flux and womens' courses. A 

 syrup made of the juice and sugar, is good for coughs or 

 phthisic. The same is good for ruptures or burstings. The 

 green herb bruised, and bound to any cut or wound, quick- 

 Ij solders the lips thereof. And the juice, decoction, or 

 powder of the dried herb, is efficacious to stay spreading 

 and fretting cancers and ulcers in the mouth and secret 

 parts. The distilled water of the plant is available in all 

 the diseases aforesaid, and to wash outward wounds and 

 sores, by applying tents of cloth wet therein. 



MUGWORT (pO^UO^.y-fArtemisia Vulgaris,) 



Descrip, — Common Mugwort has many leaves lying on 

 the ground, much cut, and divided into many sharp parts, 

 of a dusky green on the upper side, but white and noary 

 underneath. The stalk is ruddy brown, firm and hard, 

 four feet and a half high, upright, full of branches with 

 Bpiry tops, whereon grow many chaffy flowers, of a yellow 

 brown colour, like buttons, which, after they are gone, are 

 succeeded by small seeds inclosed in round heads. The root 

 is long and hard, with many small fibres growing from it, 

 whereby it takes firm hold of the ground, spreading much. 

 It survives the winter, and blooms afresh in spring. 



PlOfCe. — This is a perennial, frequent in waste grounds by 

 *Ai% sides of waters and foot-paths. 



