OULPKPIR's OOXPLBTl HSRBALi 34ft 



the itomach, and the milk that is taken from the stalka, 

 given in drink, is beneficial to those who are short- wind- 

 ed. The decoction of the leaves and stalks causes abund- 

 ance of milk in nurses, and their children to be well-co- 

 loured The juice or distilled water is good for hot in- 

 flamroationa, wheals, eruptious or heat of the skin, and 

 itching of the hemorrhoids. The juice boiled or thorough- 

 Ij heated in a little oil of bitter almonds in the peel of a 

 pomegranate, and dropped into the ears is a sure remedy 

 for d^ness, singings, &c. 



SPEEDWELL.— (^ Veronica.) 



Deicrip. — This grows with weak stalks, frequently tak- 

 ing root, where they trail upon the ground, and thence send 

 up shoots that thicken the tuft. The leaves grow on short 

 footstalks ; they are oval, an inch long, hairy, and crena- 

 ted about the edges, of a pale green colour. The flowers 

 grow on the upper part of the stalks among the k^ves, in 

 short spikes, each of one small blueish purple leaf, cut into 

 four parts ; to each of which succeeds a seed-vessel in the 

 shape of that of the Shepherd's Pouch, full of very small 

 •eeos. The root is a bush of fibres. 



Place. — It grows in woods and shady places. 



Time.— It flowers in June. The whole herb is used. 



Oovemmentand Virtues. — Venus governs this plant, and 

 it if among the vulnerary plants, used both outwanllvand 

 inwardly ; it is also pectoral, and good for coughs ana con- 

 sumptions: and is helpful against the stone and strangury; 

 as also against pestilential fevers. 



SPIGNEL.— Cir«*m.; 



Called also Mew. 



Deterip. — The root spreads deep in the ground, many 

 braocbee ^wing from one head, which is hairy at the top, 

 of a blackish brown colour on the outside, and white with- 

 in, smelling well, and of an aromatic ta«te, from whence 

 rise long stalks of fine cut leaves like hair, smaller than 

 dill, set thick on both sides of the stalks, of a good scent. 

 Among these leaves rise up round stiff stalks, with a few 

 joints and leaves on them, and at the tops an umbel of pure 

 white flowers; at the edges whereof sometimes will be seen 

 a show of the reddish blue colour, especially before they 

 be full blown, and are succeeded by small roundish seeds, 

 larger than the ordinary fennel, and of a brown colour, 

 divided into two parts, and crusted on the back. 



