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RUSHY GLONDE, or AWh-W ORT.—iSuindana 



Aquatica.) 



Descrip. — This grows from a root composed of long aad 

 thick fibres. The leaves are long, slender, and sharp-point- 

 ed ; they stand upright, and are of a deep green^ and very 

 rough and harsh to the touch : they are rounded on the 

 back, and flat on the upper side, biggest at the bottom, and 

 smallest at the extremity. The stalk is slender and green, 

 there are no leaves on it, but single white flowers at dia- 

 tancea, four-leaved, greenish white, seldom quite open. 



Place. — It is found at the bottom of fish-ponds in the 

 Dorthem parts of England and Wales. 



TifM. — It flowers in August. 



Oovemment and Virtue*. — This is a Lunar plant The 

 flowers are seldom used, but the leaves are put in cooling 

 ointments, being good for bums, inflammations, and hot 

 •wellings, and are an ingredient in the Unguentum Populeon, 



RYE.^{Secale Cereale.) 



Descrip. — Farmers cultivate the Winter Rye, which has 

 the largest grain. In many of the northern counties rye 

 and wheat are often mixed and sown together. 



Place. — It is generally sown and thrives best in poor, 

 limestone, dry, gravelly, and sandy soils. 



Time, — It is sown in autumn, and rises in a much short- 

 er time than wheat 



Virtues. — It is more digesting than wheat ; the bread 

 and the leaven of it ripens and breaks imposthuraes, boils, 

 and other swellings ; the meal put between a double cloth, 

 and moistened with a little vinegar, and heated in a pew- 

 ter-dish, set over a chafing-dish of coals, and bound fast 

 to the head while it is hot, eases continual pains therein. 



SAFFR0N.--(6>«ci« Sativus.) 



Descriv. — The plant that producer the true Saffron has 

 a round bulbous root, the size of a nutmeg, flatted at bot- 

 torn, from which spring several white fibres ; it is covered 

 outwardly with a yellowish brown skin, but is white in the 

 inside. From this root arise the flowers, inclosed in a thin 

 skin or husk, being naked and without stalks, made up of 

 six long, but roundish-pointed, purple leaves, ioclosingin 

 their middle three stamina, of a fiery, yellow, red colour : 

 which being gathered, and carefully dried in a Saffron- 

 kiln, and meAt into square cakeu, is sold in shop*. 



