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Mke. Aiiointiug the forehead and temples with it, helps the 

 megrim, and all other parts of the head. If the kernels be 

 bruised and boiled in vinegar, until they become thick, and 

 applied to the head, it marvellously makes the hair to grow 

 again upon bald places, or where it is too thin. 



PEAB-TREE.— (Pj^ru* Sativa,) 



E^XAR-TREKsareso well known that they need no description. 

 Oavemment and Virtue*. — This tree is under Venus. For 

 their medicinal use, they are best discerned by their taste. 

 All the sweet and luscious sorts, whether cultivated or wild, 

 help to move the belly downwards, more or less. Those that 

 are hard and sour, do, on the contrary, bind the belly as 

 much, and the leaves do so also : those that are moist in 

 some sort cool, but harsh and wild sorts much more, and 

 are very good in repelling medicines ; and if the wild sorts 

 be boiled with mushrooms, it makes them less dangerous. 

 If boiled with a little honey, they help much the oppressed 

 stomach, as all sorts of them do, some more, some less; but 

 the harsher sorts do more cool and bind, serving well to be 

 bound to green wounds, to cool and stay the blood, and to 

 heal up the wound without further trouble, or inflammation. 

 Wild Pears sooner close the lips of green wounds than others. 



PELLTTOBY OF SPAIN.— (^^i^Amw Pyretkrum.) 



Thxrk are two sorts, one is cultivated, the other is wild. 



Detcrip. — Common Pellitory is a very common plant, but 

 it needs great care and attention in our gardens. The root 



foes down right into the ground bearing leaves, is long and 

 nely cut upon the stalk, lying on the soiL At the top it 

 has but one large flower at a place, with a border of many 

 leaves, white on the upper side, and reddish underneath, 

 with a yellow thrum in the middle. 



The other Common Pellitory which grows here, has a root 

 of a sharp biting taste, scarcely discernible by the taste from 

 that before described, from whence arise divers brittle 

 •talks, about a yard high, with narrow leaves, finely dent- 

 ed about the edges, standing one above another to the tops. 

 The flowers are many and white, standing in tufts, with a 

 small yellowish thrum in the middle. The seed is small 



Place.— The last grows in fields by hedge-tides and }>aths, 

 almost every where. 



TifM,—li flowers at the latter end of June and July. 



099tmmieiU and Virtuss, — It ii undei Merrury, and it 



