ottlpepib'i oomplsts hbbbal. Sll 



Tims, It flowers In Jnly. The flower \a called Safflow. 

 «r. The seed only is used in the shops. 



Oavemment and Virtues. — It is Saturnine, and account- 

 ed a pretty strong cathartic, evacuatinj? touffh viscid 

 phlegm, both upwards and downwards, and by that means 

 clears the lungs and helps phthisis. 



SAGE (COMMON GARDEl^.)— (Salvia Officinalis.) 



Descrip. — This is a shrubby plant found in every garden, 

 and is well known to have long, rough, wrinkled leaves, 

 sometimes of a hoary green, and sometimes of a reddish 

 purple colour, of a pretty strong smell : the flowers grow 

 on long stalks set on verticillatim in spikes ; they are large 

 and galeated, having the galea crooked and hollow, and the 

 labella broad, of a blueish purple colour, set in clammy ca- 

 lices; in the bottom of which grow four smooth round seeda 



Place, — It is planted in gsirdeus. 



Tims, — It flowers in May. Leaves and flowers are used. 



OovemnierU and Virtues, — Jupiter claims this ; and it is 

 TOod for the liver and to breed olood. A decoction of the 

 leaves and branches made and drank provokes urine, ex- 

 pels the dead child, brings down worn ens' courses, and 

 causes the hair to become olack. It stays the bleeding of 

 wounds, and cleanses foul ulcers or sores. Three spoon- 

 fuls of the juice taken fasting, with a little honey, stays 

 the spitting or casting of blood of those in consumptions. 

 These pills are much commended : — Take of spikenard, 

 ginger, of each two drams ; of the seed of Sage toasted at 

 the fire, eight drams; all these being^ brought into powder, 

 put thereto as much of the juice of Sage as may make them 

 into a mass of pills, take a dram of them every morning 

 and night, fasting, and drink a little pure water afterward. 

 It is profitable for all kinds of pains in the head coming 

 of cold and rheumatic humours; as also for all pains of the 

 joints, whether inwardly or outwardly, and helps falling- 

 sickness, the lethargy, lowness of spirits, and the palsy ; 

 it ia also useful in deduxions of rheum in the head, and for 

 diie—et of the chest or breast. The leaves and nettles if 

 braised and laid upon the imposlhumes that rise behind 

 the ears, aasuages them much. The juice taken in warm 

 water, helps hoarseness and a cough. The leaves sodden 

 in wine, and laid upon the place aiffected with the palsy, 

 helps much, if the decoction be drunk also : Sage taken 

 with wormwood ia good for the bloody-flux. It also helps 



