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Plaes. — It grows wild in Lancashire, Yorkshire, and 

 other northeru counties, and is also planted in gardens. 



Time. — It flowers in June. 



Government and Virtues.— This is an herb of Venus. The 

 roots boiled in wine or water, and drank, helps the stran- 

 gury and stoppings of the urine, the wind, swellings and 

 pains in the stomach, pains of the mother, and all joint- 

 aches. If the powder of the root be mixed with honey, 

 and the same taken it breiks tough phlegm, and dries up 

 the rheum that falls on the lungs. 



SPIGNEL (BB,OAD'hKAYED,)—{If(mmAihamantica.) 



Callicd also Baldmony. 



Descrip. — The root is long and thick, fibrous, of an aro- 

 matic taste, the bottom leaves are of a dark green colour. 

 The upper leaves are small, very slender, of a dull green 

 colour. The stalk grows about a foot high, not much 

 branched, with a few small leaves growing thereon, bear* 

 ing on the top umbels of small white five- leaved fluwerti 

 The seed is longer and larger than fennel, two growing 

 together, which are striated on the back. 



Place. — It is found in our western counties, in rich 

 damp soils, but not common. 



Time. — It flowers in June and July. 



Oovemment and Virtties. — It is under the dominion of 

 Mercury in Cancer, and is an excellent plant in disorders 

 of the stomach from phlegm, raw crude humours, wind and 

 relaxations, pains, want of appetite and digestion, belch- 

 in^s, ructatioiis, loathings, colic, gripes, retention of the 

 unue, and the menses, and if powdered and given with 

 loaf sugar, and a glass of its infusion in white wine or 

 beer, or water taken evening and morning for some days, 

 mostly brings down the menses and lochia, facilitates the 

 expulsion of birth and after-birth, and eases a windy colic. 



QFlKEl^ABI>.-~(I^ardostach7/s Jatamanei.) 



Virtues, — This is a native of India, of a heating, drying 

 faculty, good to provoke urine and ease pains of the stone 

 in the reins and kidneys, being drunk in cold water. It 

 helps loathinus, swellings or gnawing in the stomach, the 

 jaundice, and such as are liver-grown. It is a good ingre- 

 dient in Mithridate, and other antidotes against poison; to 

 pregnant women it is forbidden to be taken inwardly. The 

 oil is good to warm cold places, and to digest crude and 



