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MTRRH (ENQLISHO—f Cfoi*/arui Odorata.) 



Descrip.— The leaves of English Myrrh are large and 

 wiuged, with several loug pinnse on eacn side; of a pleasant 

 aromatic smell ; the stalks are somewhat hairy and chan- 

 nelled, beeet with the like leaves, but smaller, bearing on 

 their tops umbels of white five-leaved flowers, which are 

 succeeded by pretty large long seed, deeply furrowed, and 

 having five sharp ridges. The root is thick and spreading, 

 with many fibres. 



Place. — It is sown in wardens. 



Time. — It flowers in May and June. The leaves and 

 seed are used. 



Oavemment and Virtueg, — This plant is of a hot nature, 

 it LB of fine aromatic parts, and under Jupiter. A large 

 spoonful of the unbruised seeds taken every morning, iB 

 excellent against rheumatic complaints and falling sicknesa 

 They operate by urine, and promote the menstrual dis- 

 charge; and while they are producing these good effects, 

 they strengthen the stomach, expel wind and create appe- 

 tite. Eaten as a salad, it is an excellent antiscorbutic. 



MYETLE THEE,— (Mt/rtut Communu,) 



Dttcrip. — This is a little tree or bush, shooting forth 

 many slender tough branches, sometimes brown and some- 

 times of a reddish colour, on which grow small, oblong, 

 sharp-pointed, green leaves, set alternately on the stalks, 

 of a pleasant aromatic smell, among these come forth the 

 flowers, each singly on short footstalks, consisting of five 

 white round leaves, full of a great many white stamina, 

 which being &llen, the calyx becomes a small, round, black 

 berry, with a small crown on the top, full of white seeds. 



Place, — It grows wild in the soutn of Europe; but with 

 OS is an ornament of our gardena 



Time. — It flowers in August. 



Oovemment and Virtues. — This tree is under Mercuij. 

 The leaves sometimes, but chiefly the berries are used. 

 They are both of them drying and binding, good for diar- 

 rhoea and dysentery, spitting of blood, and catarrhous de- 

 flactions upon the breast, the fluoralbus, the falling down 

 of the womb or fundament, both taken inwardly, and used 

 outwardly, in f^owders and injections 



