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SARACEN'S CONSOUND, or GREAT BROAD- 

 LEAVED B,AQWORT.—{Senecio Saracenicus.) 



Descrip. — ^This is a robust conspicuous plant, which rises 

 Bometimes to five feet high; brownish or green stalks, with 

 narrow green leaves snipped about the edges, somewhat 

 like those of the peach tree, or willow leaves, but not of 

 80 light a green. The stalk spreads at the top, and is fur- 

 nished with many yellow star-like flowers, wnich grow in 

 a cup that is fringed, or surrounded with short leaves at 

 the t>ottom. The seed is long, small, and of a brown co- 

 lour, wrapped in down ; and, when ripe, is carried away 

 with the wind. The root consists of fibres set together at 

 a head, which survives the winter, although the stalks dry 

 away, and the leaves then disappear. The taste and smell 

 of the whole plant is raw and unpleasant. 



Place. — This perennnial commonly grows in the mea- 

 dows of Yorkshire and Wiltshire, in moist and wet lands, 

 by wood -sides, and sometimes by the water-side. 



Time.— It flowers in July : tho seed is soon ripe; and is 

 carried away with the wind. 



Government and Virtues. — This is an herb of Saturn. It 

 is balsamic and diuretic. If boiled in wine, and drank, it 

 helps the indisposition of the liver, and frees the gall from 

 obstructions ; whereby it is good for the yellow-jaundice, 

 and for the dropsy in the beginning of it ; for all inward 

 ulcers of the reins, mouth or throat, and inward wounds 

 and bruises; likewise for such sores as happen in the privy 

 parts of men or women : being steeped in wine, and then 

 distilled, the water thereof drank, is singularly good to 

 eaije all gua wings of the stomach, or other pains of the body; 

 as also the pains of the mother : and being boiled in wa- 

 ter, it helps continual agues ; and the said water, or the 

 simple water of the herb distilled, or the juice or decoc- 

 tion, are very effectual to heal any green wound, or old 

 Bore or ulcer whatsoever, cleansing them from corruption, 

 and quickly healing them up: briefly, whatsoever has been 

 said of Bugle or Sanicle, may be found herein. 



SARSAPARILLA.— ("A^miYflfcr Sarsaparilla.) 



Descrip. — This is leckoned among the sorts of prickly 

 Bindweeds, of which there are three sorts : one with red 

 berries, another with black berries, and a third with large 

 leaves, of an oval figure, very entire on the edges, smooth 

 and shining on the surface^ of a dark green ooloar, and sup- 



