CQLPRTER'S COMPLBTX HERBAL. ifff 



and pat into the ears, eases the pains of thenL It is of sab- 

 tie, warm, and penetrating parts; it is also opening, discus- 

 tive, and canniuative ; it promotes the menses, and loche, 

 and prevents the fluor albus. In asthmatic disoriders it must 

 be sweetened with honey. One spoonful of the juice sweet- 

 ened with sugar-candy, is a cure for the hooping-cough. 



PENNYWORT (COMMON MARSH.)— (iTycfrocoQ^^* 

 Vulgaris.) 



Ikaerip. — ^The root is round, tuberous, and famished with 

 fibres at the bottom. The leaves rise in thick and regular 

 clusters, and are supported on footstalks of three inchea 

 long, and these are in the centre, the leaf spreading every 

 way into roundness from them. These leaves are of a blu- 

 ish green, prettily notched round the edges, of a watery 

 taste. The stalk is eight inches, and is round and firm; to- 

 ward the top it divides into two or three branches, and on 

 these hang numerous flowers in long spikes, small, greenish, 

 and dented at the rim. The seeds are numerous and small. 



Place, — It frequently grows upon walls in Somersetshire, 



Tinve. — It flowers in July. 



Government and Virtues, — It is under Venus, and is good 

 to break the stone and void it; also the gravel in the reins 

 or bladder. It helps suppression of urine and the strangury. 



PEONY (MALE.)— (Pofonta.) 



Descrip. — It rises up with a brownish stalk, whereon 

 grow green and reddish leaves, without any particular 

 division in the leaf. The flowers stand at the top of the 

 •talks, consisting of five or six broad leaves, of a purplish 

 red colour, with many yellow threads in the middle, stand- 

 ing about the head, which rises up to be the seed-vessels, 

 divided into two, three, or four crooked pods like horns, 

 which, being full ripe, open and turn themselves down back- 

 ward, shewing witnin them divers round, black, shininff 

 seeds, having also many crimson grains intermixed with 

 black. The roots are great, thick, and long, spreading and 

 running down deep in the ground. 



Place. — It grows in gardena. 



Time. — It flowers usually aboat May. 



Oovemment and Virtues. — It ia an herb of the Sun, and 

 under the Lion. Tbo roots are held to be of more virtue 

 than the seed ; next the flowers; and last of all, the leaves. 

 The root, fresh gathered, cures the falling -sickness ; take 

 tb« root, Vashed clean and stamped small, and infuse in sack 



