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ROSE (HIP.)— fiJoja Canincu) 



Callrd also Wild Briar. 



Descrip, — This grows in the hedges, has wiuged leaves like 

 garden roses, but smoother and greener ; the tiowers are sin- 

 cle, of five white, and sometimes pale red leaves, when they 

 tall, thej are followed by red seed-vessels, full of pulp, inclo 

 eing white, cornered seed, covered with short stiff hairs. 



Pace, — It grows eveir where in the hedges. 



Time.— It flowers in June, and the hips are fit to be ga- 

 thered about the end of September. 



Oovemment and Virtues. — This is under Jupiter. The 

 flowers are accounted more astringent than the garden rosea, 

 and are a specific for the excess of the catamenia. The pulp 

 of the hipe has a grateful acidity, strengthens the stomach, 

 cools the heat of fevers, is pectoral, good for coughs and 

 spitting of blood, and in cases where astringents are safe ; 

 thev are a good ingredient in compositions for the whites, 

 and too great a discharge of the menses. The hips are grate- 

 ful to the taste, and a considerable restorative, fitly given to 

 consumptive persons ; the conserve is proper in all distem- 

 pers of the breast, and in coughs and tickling rheums. The 

 white and red roses are cooling and drying ; the bitterness 

 in the roses when they are fresh, especially the juice, purg- 

 es choler, and watery humours ; but being dried, ana that 

 heat which caused the bitterness being consumed, they have 

 then a binding and astringent Quality : those also that are 

 not full blown, do both cool ana bind more than those that 

 are full blown, and the white rose more than the red. The 

 decoction of red roses made with wine and used, is very good 

 for head-ache, and i)ain8 in the eves, ears, throat and gums; 

 a« also for the funcfament, and the lower parts of the belly 

 and the matrix, being bathed or put into them. The same 

 decoction, with the roses remaining in it, is applied to the 

 region of the heart to ease the inflammation therein, as also 

 St Anthony's fire, and other diseases of the stomach. Being 

 dried and beaten to powder, and taken in steeled beer or 

 water, it helps to stay womens' courses. The yellow threads 

 In the middle of the roses being powdered, and drunk, in the 

 distilled water of quinces, stays the overflowing of womens' 

 ooursee, and stays the defluxions of rheum upon the gumi 

 and teeth, preserving them from corruption, and fastening 

 tbem if thev be loose. If washed therewith, and some vine- 

 gar of squills added. The heads with the seed being used 



