860 OULPEPIER'S COMPLVTB HBRBAU 



FAHSLEY (COMMON BTOl^y-fSison Amomum;) 

 PAESLEY (SMALL ST01ifE)---( CauccUis Arvensis ;) 

 & PAESLEY (SMOOTH &TO^E.)—(CaucalU Lep- 

 tophylla,) 



Descrip, — These plants have the flower umbelliferous, on 

 a few branches, with numerous subdivisions ; there are 

 Bome narrow leaves, both at the base of the larger branches 

 and of the smaller. The first has white flowers, but the 

 other two are pale purple ; the leaves are of a good green, 

 and deeply notched; the three plants grow to about a foot 

 long, and the seeds are oblong, rough, small, and brown. 



Place, — They grow near Aylesbury and Kingston. 



Time. — They flower in June, the seed is ripe soon after. 



Government and Virtues. — AH the Parslevs are undei 

 Mars. The seeds contain an essential oil, and will cure in- 

 termitting fevers or agues. A strong decoction of the roots 

 is a powerful diuretic, and assists in removing obstructions 

 of the viscera. They are good against the jaundice and 

 gravel, and moderately promote the menses. 



PARSNIP (COW.)-'(Beracleum Sphondylium.) 



Descrip, — This grows with three or four large, spread- 

 winged, rough leaves, lying often on the ground, or raised 

 a little from it, with long, round, hairy footstalks under 

 ihem, parted usually into five divisions, the two couples 

 standing each against the other ; and one at the end, and 

 each leaf being almost round, yet somewhat deeply cut in 

 on the edges in some leaves, and not so deep in others, of a 

 whitish green colour, smelling somewhat strongly ; among 

 which rises up a round, crested, hairy stalk, two or three 

 feet high, witn a few joints and leaves thereon, and branch- 

 ed at the top, where stand large umbels of white, and, some- 

 times reddish flowers ; and after them flat, whitish, thin, 

 winged seed, two always joined together. The root is long 

 and white, with two or three long strings growing into the 

 ground, smelling likewise strongly and unpleasant. 



Place, — It grows in moist meadows, and the borders and 

 corners of fields, and near ditches, throughout this land, 



Tim^e, — It flowers in July, and seeds in August. 



Government and Virtues. — Mercury has dominion over it. 

 The seed is of a sharp cutting quality, and is a fit medicine 

 for a cough and shortness of breath, the falling-sickness 

 and jaundice. The root is available for all the purposes 

 aforesaid, and is of use to take away the hard stin thai 



