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green leaves or heads bruised, and applied with a little 

 vinegar, or made into a poultice witn barley-water, or 

 hog's-grease, cools and tem])er8 all inflammations, and St. 

 Anthony's fire. It is generally used in treacle and mithri- 

 c^ate, and in all other medicines that are made to pi'ocuie 

 sleep and rest, and to ease pains in the head as well as in 

 other parts. It cools inflammations, and agues. It is put in 

 hollow teeth, to ease the pain; it is also good for the gout 



POPPY (YELLOW HORNED.)— fG'^aMctwm lAUeutn.) 



Detcrip, — The root is long and thick at tHe head, divi- 

 ded into branches which fix themselves deep in the earth, 

 from which spring blueish-green winged leaves dividea 

 generally into five parts, the section at the end being the 

 largest The stalk grows to be a foot or more high, full 

 of thick joints, having two smaller leaves at each joint ; 

 the flowers grow together upon a footstalk three or four 

 inches long, each having a shorter of its own ; they consist 

 of four small yellow leaves, included in calyces of two hol- 

 low parts; and after they are fallen, they are followed bv 

 long, narrow pods, full of small, round, shining black seed. 

 Every part of the plant, when broken, emits a yellow, bit- 

 ter, acrid jaice. 



Place, — It CTOws among waste grounds and mbbish, 

 upon walls and buildings. 



TxTM, — It flowers in May. 



OovemmerU and Virtues. — It is under the Sun in Leo ; 

 and is aperative and cleansing, opening obstrutitions of the 

 spleen and liver, and of ^reat use in curing the jaundice 

 and scurvy. Outwardly it is' used for sore eyes, to dry up 

 the rheum, and take away specks and films, as also against 

 tetters and ringworms, and the breakings-out of scurvy. 

 The root dried and powdered, is balsamic and sub-astrin- 

 gent. It is given against bloody-fluxea, and in other he- 

 morrhages, half a dram for a doee. 



PRIMROSE.— fPrimuZa Vulgaris,) 



Deterip. — This has a perennial root consisting of a short 

 thick head, furnished with a great number of thick and 

 long fibres. The leaves arising from the root make a large 

 tnft ; they are Urge, oblong, without leaf-stalks, wriukleid 

 on the surface, entire at the edges, of a deep ^reen colour. 

 The flowers are supported singly on long slender hairy 

 ■talks: which rise immediately nrom the root ; they are 



