S58 culfkpir's complbtb bsrbal. 



divided : they are smooth and striated, beset with smaller 

 and finer leaves ; and on their tops have small umbels 

 of little, five-leaved, white flowers, which are succeeded by 

 small, round, striated, brown seed. 



Place. — It is sown in gardens. 



Time, — It flowers in summer. The roots, leaves, and 

 seeds are used. 



Oovernment and Virtues. — It is under the dominion of 

 Mercury; is very comforting to the stomach; helps to pro- 

 voke urine and the courses, to break wind, both in the sto- 

 mach and bowels, and op)ens the body, but the root much 

 more. It opens obstructions both of liver and spleen, it is 

 good against falling-sickness, and to provoke urine, especi- 

 ally if the roots be boiled, and eaten like parsnips. The 

 seed provokes urine, and women's courses, expels wind, 

 breaks the stone, and eases the pains thereof; it is efi'ectual 

 in the lethargy, and good against coughs. The distilled wa- 

 ter is a familiar medicine with nurses to give children when 

 troubled with wind in the stomach or belly, and it is also 

 of service to upgrown persons. The leaves laid to the eyes 

 inflamed with heat, or swollen, helps tbem, if used with 

 bread or meal, or fried with butter, and applied to womens* 

 breasts that are hard through the curding of their milk, it 

 abates the hardness, and takes away black and blue marks 

 coming of bruises or falla The juice dropped into the 

 ears with a little wine, eases the paina It helps the jaun- 

 dice, falling-sickness, the dropsy, and stone in the kidneys 

 in this manner : Take of Parsley seed, fennel, annise, and 

 carraways, of each one ounce, of the roots of Parsley, bur- 

 net, saxifrage, and carraways, of each an ounce and a half; 

 let the seeds be bruised, and the roots washed and cut small, 

 let them lie all night and steep in a bottle of white wine; 

 and in the moniing be boiled in a close earthen vessel to a 

 third of the quantity ; of which being strained and cleared, 

 take four ounces night and morning lasting. This opens 

 obstructions of the liver and spleen, and expels the dropsy 

 and jaundice by urine. 



PABSLEY PIERT, oe PARSLEY BREAKSTONE.— 



( Alchemilla Arvensis.) 



Dcscrip. — The root is very small and thready, yet it con- 

 tinues many years, from whence arise many leaves lying 

 along the ground, each standing upon a long small foot- 

 stalk, the leaves are as broad as a man's nail, very d^i^ply 

 dented on the edges, of a dusKy ^reen colour The stalks 



