242 culpepbr's complktb herbal. 



of diflferent parts; the ripe berries open the bodj, and the 

 unripe bind it, especially when they are dried, and then 

 they are good to stay fluxes, laxes, and womens' courses. 

 The bark of the root kills the broad worms in the belly. 

 The juice, or syrup made of the juice of the berries, helps 

 all inflammations or sores in the mouth or throat. The 

 juice of the leaves is a remedy against the bites of serpents, 

 and for those that have taken aconite. A decoction made 

 of the bark and leaves, is good to wash the teeth when 

 they ache. The leaves stay the bleeding at the mouth or 

 nose, or the bleeding of the piles, or of a wound, if bound 

 onto the places. 



MULLEIN (BLACK.)-^ Verbascum Nigrum.) 



Descrip. — ^The stalk is round and hoary, arising usually 

 single, about as tall as a man. The lower leaves are large, 

 a foot long, and three or four inches broad, sharp pointed 

 at the end, slightly indented about the edges, covered with 

 a hoary down. Those which grow on the stalk, have their 

 middle ribs affixed to it for half their length, which make 

 the stalk appear winged. The flowers grow in a long spike, 

 set thick and close, each consisting of one leaf cut into five 

 segments, of a yellow colour, with as many wooUv stamina, 

 having purple apices. The seed-vessels are oblong and 

 pointed, opening in two when ripe, and showing a small 

 brownish seed. The root is single, and small. 



Place, — It jgrows in highways, and by hedge-sides. 



Time. — It flowers in July. The leaves are used. 



VirUies. — They are accounted pectoral, and good for 

 coughs, spitting of blood, and other affections of the breast; 

 they are likewise good for griping and colic pains, arising 

 from sharp humours ; outwardly used in fomentations or 

 fumigations, they are reckoned a specific against the pains 

 and swelling of the hemorrhoids, or piles. 



MULLEIN {VfRlTE.y^VerhascwmLychnitit.) 



Descrip. — This has many fair, large, woolly white lea ves^ 

 lying next the ground, somewhat larger than broad, point- 

 ed at the end, and dented about the edges. The stalk rises 

 to four or five feet high, covered over with such like leaves, 

 but less, so that no suJk can be seen for the number of 

 leaves set thereon up to the flowers, which come forth on 

 all sides of the stalk, without any branches for the most 

 part, and are many set together in a long spike, in some 



