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Ishes every year after it has given seed, and raises itself 

 again of its own sowing. The plant, or any part thereof, 

 if bruised, smells of garlic, but more pleasantly, and tastes 

 somewhat hot and sharp, almost like rocket. 



Place, — It grows under walls, and by hedge-sides^ and 

 path-ways in fields in many placea 



Time. — It flowers in June, July, and August. 



Oovemment and Virtues. — It is an herb of Mercury. It 

 warms the stomach, and causes digestion : the juice boiled 

 with honey, is as good as hedge-mustard for thecough, to cut 

 and expectorate the tough phlegm. The seed bruised and 

 boiled in wine, is a good remedy for the wind colic, or the 

 stone, if drank warm ; it is given to women troubled with 

 the mother, both to drink, and the seed put into a cloth, 

 and applied while it is warm, is of singular good use. The 

 leaves also, or the seed boiled, is good to be used in clys- 

 ters to ease the pains of the stone. The green leaves are 

 held to be good to heal the ulcers in the legs. 



SAVINE. — (Sabina Junipenit.) 



Deicrip. — This is a small evergreen shrubby tree, hav- 

 ing its branches set close together, clothed with short, nar- 

 row, somewhat prickly leaves, almost resembling cypress, 

 of a very strong smell ; among these, after the tree is old, 

 and has stood loug in a place, grow small mossy greenish 

 flowers, which are succeeded by small flattish berries, less 

 than those of Juniper, of the same blackish blue colour. 



Place. — Though it does not grow naturally in England, 

 yet it is planted in gardens, where it seldom produces fruit, 

 and has therefore generally been reputed barren. 



Government and Virtites. — It is under the dominion of 

 Mars, being hot and dry, in the third degree ; and being 

 of exceeding clean parts, it is of a very digesting quality. 

 It is hot and dry, opening and attenuating, and a power- 

 ful provoker of the catamenia, causing abortion, and ex- 

 pelling the birth ; it is good to destroy worms in children. 

 The juice mixed with milk, and sweetened with sugar, is 

 an excellent medicine for that purpose : beaten into a cat- 

 aplasm with hog's-lard, it cures children's scabby heads. 

 It is a most powerful detersive, and has so violent an eff'ect 

 upon the uterine passages if used imprudently, that wick- 

 ed women have employed it to very ill purposes. It is a 

 very fine opener of obstructions of any kind, whence in 

 composition! for the jaundice, dropsy, scurvy, rheumatism, 



