842 OUT.PEPSS'B OOMPLETS HEBBAL. 



in fomentatioas for easing pain, dispersiog swellinga, or 

 stopping the progress of gangrenes, 



SOUTHEKNWOOD (FIELD.)— Ur^emuia Campestrit,) 



Descrtp, — This has a long, thick, fibrous root. The stalks 

 are shrubby, upright, and much branched, of a whitish co- 

 lour toward the bottom, and reddish upwards. The leaves 

 are oblong, divided into numerous narrow segments, and 

 their colourgreyish green. The flowersstand in thick spikes 

 at the tops of the branches; and they are small and brown. 



Pf.ace. — It Lb found in our southern counties by road-side*. 



Time. — It flowers in July. 



Oovemnient and Virtues, — It is a powerful diuretic, and 

 is good in hysteric cases. The best way of using it is in 

 conserve maide of the fresh tops, beaten up with twice their 

 weight of sugar. It is a mercurial plant, and worthy of 

 more esteem than it has. The manner of preparing it is 

 thus : — Cut fine fo ir ounces of the leaves, teat them in a 

 mortar, with six ounces of loaf sugar, till the whole is like 

 a paste ; three times a day take a piece of this about the 

 size of a nutmeg : it is pleasant, and very effectual ; and 

 one thing in its favonr m particular, it is a composer, and 

 always disposes to sleep. 



SOWBREAD.— ("Jrtonito Cyclamen,) 



Descrip, — The root is round, and somewhat flattish, of a 

 dark brown colour on the outside, with several dark fibres 

 shooting from the bottom ; the leaves grow on thick red- 

 dish stalks, of a darkish green above, marked with white 

 spots, and underneath of a reddish or purple colour, round, 

 and hollowed in next the stalk; among these rise the flow- 

 ers, each on its own footstalk, which is usually slenderest 

 next the ground. They are made up of one single pendu- 

 lous leaf, divided into five sharp-pointed segments, which 

 turn themselves backward, when they open, and are of a 

 pale purple, when these are fallen, the stalk with the seed' 

 vessel coils itself round towards the earth, like a snake. 



place. — It is a native of the Alps, and the mountains of 

 Austria, but is planted in this country in gardens. 



Time. — It flowers in September and October. 



Oovemmeat and Virtues. — This is a martial plant The 

 root is very forcing, used to bring away the birth and the 

 secaiidines, and to provoke the menses. The juice is com- 

 mended against vertiginous disorders of the head, used in 

 form of an errhiue; it is good against cutaneous eruptions 



