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Time.— li flowers in May ; but the seed is not ripe till 

 November. The fruit is used. 



OavemmeTit and VirtiLes. — It Is under Saturo, and reck- 

 oned to be very restringent and useful for all kinds of flux- 

 es ; but whei ripe, not altogether so binding. This fruit 

 is seldom to bA met with in our markets, and therefore, 

 for a succedaneum, we use the following. 



SKRVICE TREE (MANURED.)— ('Pyn^* JDofMttica,) 

 (Pyrus SorhuSy) (Sorhut Dome*tica,) 



Detcrip. — This grows tall in good ground, having a whi- 

 tish bark, and leaves that differ from those of the former, 

 in not being winged, though larger and longer, being cut 

 into seven sharp-pointed and serrated segments, the two 

 next the stalk, being cut in deepest, of a pale green above, 

 and whitish underneath. The flowers grow in clusters like 

 the former, of a yellowish-white colour ; and the fruit is 

 set in the same manner on long footstalks, more than twice 

 the size of common haws; they are likewise umbilicated at 

 the top, of a harsh restringent taste when green, but when 

 mellowed, sweet and pleasant, having a stony substance 

 in the middle, including two seeda 



Place, — It grows frequently in woods aud thickets, and 

 flowers with the former, the fruit being ripe as late. 



Oovemment and Virtv^s. — It is under the dominion of 

 Saturn. The fruit is used as the former, and is of the 

 same nature, or rather more restringent and binding, be- 

 ing good for all kinds of fluxes, either of blood or humours; 

 when ripe, it is pleasant and grateful to the stomach, pro- 

 moting digestion, and preventing the too hasty passage of 

 the food out of the bowels ; and is commended in fevers 

 attended with diarrhoea. They may be kept all the year, 

 if dried before they are mellow, and may be used in 

 decoctions for the said purpose, either to drink, or bathe 

 the parts reauiring it; and are profitably used in that man- 

 ner to stay the bleeding of wounds, and of the morth o 

 nose, to be applied to the forehead, and nape of the neck. 



SHEPHERDS NEEDLE (COMMON.)— (^/Scarw^w: 

 Pecten Veneris.) 



Jkeerip, — This has a long, slender, white root, hung with 

 a few slight fibres : the leaves are small, and supported on 

 short foo/stalks ; they are finely divided, aud their colour 

 ji of a very dark green. The stalks are numerous, green, 

 branched, a foot high. The leaves stand irregularly on 



