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ported OQ shortish leaf-staiks. The flowers are small, and 

 of a yellowish colour. 



Place, — The two first jirrow in Italj, Spain, and other 

 warm conutries, throughout Europe and Asia. The third 

 is found odIj in the West Indies. 



Time. — It has ripe berries early In hot countries. 



Oovemmeni and Virtue*. — These are all plants of Mars; 

 of a healing quality howsoever used. Both leaves and ber- 

 ries, being drunk before or after taking any <leadly poison, 

 are an excellent antidote. If the juice of the berries be 



fiven to a new-bom child, it shall never be hurt by poison, 

 t is good against all sorts of venomous things. Twelve or 

 sixteen of the berries, beaten to powder, and given in 

 wine, procure urine when it is stopped. The distilled wa- 

 ters, when drank, have the same effect, cleanses the reins 

 mod assuages inward inflammations. If the eyes be wash- 

 ed therewith, it heals them thoroughly. The true Sarsa- 

 parilla is held generally not to heat, but rather to dry the 

 tumours; yet it is easily perceived, that it not only dries 

 them but wjistes them away by a secret property, chiefly 

 that of sweating, which it greatly promotes. It is used in 

 many kinds of diseases, particularly in cold fluxes from 

 the head and brain, rheums, and catarrhs, and cold griefs 

 of the stomach, as it expels wind powerfully. It helps all 

 manner of aches in the sinews or joints, all running sores 

 in the legs, all phlegmatic swellings, tetters, or ringworms, 

 and all manner of spots and foulness of the skin. It is 

 reckoned a great sweetener of the blood, and has been found 

 of eervice in venereal cases. Infants who have received the 

 infection from their nurses, though covered with pustules 

 aud ulcers, may be cured by the use of this root without 

 the help of mercurials; aud the best way of administering 

 it to them is to mix the powdered root with their food. 



SAUCE-ALONE (JACK-BY-THE-HEDGE, or COM- 

 MON GARLIC CliE^S.)^(AUiaria OJficinalAS.) 



Descrip. — The lower leaves of this are rounder than 

 those that grow towards the top of the stalks, and are set 

 singly on a joint, being somewhat round and broad, point- 

 ed at the ends, dented also about the edges, somewhat re- 

 sembling nettle-leaves in the form, but of a freshev green 

 colour, not rou:»h or prickling ; the flovers are white, at 

 the top of the stalks, one al>ove another which being past, 

 follow small round pofls, wherein are cotitaiued round seed 

 •omewhat blackish. The root sstriugy aud thready, per- 



