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▼ound herb, both inwardly and outwardly; it is commend- 

 etl against venomous bitea, especially those of a mad dog. 



PLANTAIN {QBASS.)—(PIantaffo Uni/lora.) 



Dt9crip. — This is a grassy and apparently weedy herb. 

 The leaves are green, curling, entwined with each other in 

 a carious manner, like Sea Grass. The flowers are single, 

 consisting of four white leaves each, with long threads 

 growing out of each centre, at the top are small white but- 

 tons. The whole plant grows about four inches high. 



Place. — It is common in the Isle of Sheppy, and iii 

 other parte about the sea-coasta. 



Time, — It flowers in June. 



Virtues. — The expressed iuice is good against spitting of 

 blood, immoderate flow of the menses, and piles. The seeds 

 reduced to powder, and taken, stop the whites. The fresh 

 leaves bruised, and applied to fresh cuts, soon heal them, 

 and are good to cleanse and heal ulcers. This is astringent, 

 cooling, and healing. A decoction is excellent in all ure- 

 thral and uterine diBorders. 



PLANTAIN {BlSWO^T.y-CPlantago Lanceolata.) 



Descrip. — The leaves are narrower than the former, 

 •harp-pointed, having five ribs, or nerves, running (^uite 

 through them to the root, which is less and more stnngy 

 than the former: the flowers grow at the end of long slen- 

 der stalks in oblong spikes, an inch long ; they are small 

 and staminous, witn white apices. The seeds grow like 

 the others, but are somewhat larger. 



P^ace. — It grows in fields and hedges. 



THme. — The flowers appear in May and Jane. 



Virtues.~The leaves are astringent and vulnerary, and 

 are useful for the same purposes as the former. The juice 

 of it is commended for the ague, to lessen its efl'ecte. 



PLOUGHMAN'S SPIKENARD.— (Conyza SquarroM.) 



Ikscnjpr.—Thui is a biennial, a coarse, but Ul-iooking 

 plant* The stalk is two feet and a half high, of a ruddy 

 brown, dry, brittle, branchy towards the top. The leaves 

 are broad lanced, rugged on the surface, of a coarse dead 

 green, and a little dented about the edges. The flowers 

 are of a dull yellow, and stand in a close tuft, at the tope 

 of the stalk ; they grow out of an oblong and ruffged cop; 

 the scales are sharp-pointed, stand wide and are b^nt oat 



