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port the system in privation and during famine, it is good 

 for those who travel long distances and are compelled to 

 endure exposure without food. 



OB:PJNE.—(Sedum Telephitm,) 



Descrip. — Common Orpine grows with div^ers round brit- 

 tle stalks, thick set with flat and flesh leaves, without or- 

 der, and a little dented about the edges, of a green colour. 

 The flowers are whitish, growing in tufts, after which come 

 small chaffy husks, with seed like dust in them. The roots 

 are thick, round, white tuberous clocks; and the plant grows 

 less in some places than in others where it is found. 



Place. — It grows wild in ahadowy fields and woods in 

 almost every county, and is cultivated in gardens, where it 

 rises greater than the wild. 



TVme. — It -flowers about July, the seed ripens in Au^usu 



Chvemment and Virtue*. — The Moon owns this herb. It 

 is seldom used in inward medicines. The distilled water is 

 profitable for gnawings or excoriations in the stomach and 

 Dowels, or for ulcers in the lungs, liver, or other inward 

 parts; and in the matrix, it helps all those diseases, if 

 drank for some days together. It stays the bloody flux, 

 and other fluxes in the body or in wounds. The root acts 

 with the like effect. Outwardly it cools any inflammation 

 upon any hurt or wound, and eases the pain ; it also cures 

 bums or scalds, if the juice be beaten with some green 

 salad-oil, and anointed. The leaves bruised, and laid to 

 any green wound in the legs or hands, heals them ouickly, 

 and if bound to the throat, helps the quinsey; it helps also 

 ruptures. It is of a styptic astringent nature, and the roots 

 contain the principal virtues. Bruised and applied exter- 

 nally they are serviceable in wounds, bums, and bruises. 

 The leaves boiled in milk, and the decoction, and a large 

 teacupful taken taken three or four times a-day, promotes 

 the urinary discharge, and is senriceable for piles and othei 

 hemorrhages. 



PAKSLEY {COUMOlf. y^Petroselinvm Sativum.) 



Descriv. — The roots are long, thick, and white, having a 

 wrinkled bark ; from which spring many shining, greeu, 

 wint^ed leaves, growing on lung footstalks; which are divi- 

 ded into three sections, and each of those subdivided into 

 three more, which are triangular and cut in at the ends. 

 The stalks grow to be two feel hi^ mach branched ao4 



