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infusion of the dowers is the best preparation. The flowers 

 are good against feverish complaints; the juice applied ex- 

 ternally heals foulness and discolourings of the skin. 



RAMPION (HAIRY SB.EEra.)'-( Phyteuma 

 Spicatum,) 



Descrip. — Grows upon a dry, brittle stock, slender, and 

 of a Dale green. The leaves are of a pale dead green, and 

 % little hairy; milk runs from them when broken, and pres- 

 aed. The flowers are a beautiful blue, pale, and elegant 



Pl<iC€, — Most found on heaths and dry upland grounds. 



THme. — It flowers in August. 



Oovemment and Virtues. — This is under Venus, and is 

 cooling and diuretic The leaves are an excellent diuretic, 

 useful in gravel and the stone : boiled in milk, and sweet- 

 ened with sugar, they cure the heat of urine. They help the 

 1'aundice, by opening the obstructions of the liver and gall 

 >ladder : and the dropsy, by carrying oflf the water. 



RATTLE QiRii&a.^(Rh%nanthu9,) 



Or this there are two kinds, which I shall speak of, viz.. 

 the red and yellow. 



Descrip. — The common Red Rattle ( PedicvlarU Sylva- 

 tica)\idi% reddish, holiowstalks, sometimes green, rising from 

 the root, lying mostly on the ground, some spring more up- 

 right, with many small reddish or green leaves, set on both 

 sides of a middle rib finely dented about the edges : the 

 flowers stand on the tops of the stalks and branches, of a pur- 

 plish red colour ; after which come blackish seed in small 

 ooaka, which lying loosely, will rattle with shaking. The 

 root consists of two or three small whitish strings with 

 ■ome fibres thereat 



The common Yellow 'RaXi\e( RhinantkiLs Critta Qalli) has 

 seldom above one round great stalk, rising from the foot, 

 about a yard or two feet high, with but few branches, having 

 two long broad leaves set atajoint,deeblycutin on the edges, 

 broadest next to the stalk, and smaller to the end. The 

 flowers grow at the tops of the stalks, with some shorter 

 leaves with them, hooded after the manner that the others 

 are, but of a fair, yellow colour, some paler, and others 

 more white. The seed is contaiued in husks, and when ripe, 

 rattle same as the red kiud does. The root is small and 

 slender, jierishing yearly. 



Place. — They grow in the meadows and woods through* 

 oat tLi« country. 



