348 oulpeperIb complvte hkrbal. 



Place, — Not only live trees, but decayed onea, and rot- 

 ten wood, produce this excrescence. 



Time, — Warm and damp weather is best for its growth. 



Oovemment and Virtues, — This is under the Moon. It 

 is used for stopping blood upon the amputation of a limb, 

 without making any ligature. The softest part should be 

 chosen, and when reduced to powder, as much of it must 

 be applied to the wound as will rather more than corer it; 

 and over this a broader piece must be applied with proper 

 bandages. The moss which grows in old wine-casks is 

 the best thing that can be em{Hoyed for this purpose. 



SPUEGE (BB,OAI>'LEAVED.)-'( Euphorbia Fori- 

 landicay) (Euphorbia PlatyphylUi,) 



Deserip, — This does not rise so high, nor are the leaves 

 ■0 broad as some, but they are longer, not dented on the 

 edges; it spreads itself at the top like a tree ; the leaves 

 are very green, and the flowers are white. 



SPURGE (COBN.)'^( Euphorbia Segetalu.) 



Deserip,— Th\9 has numerous thick blueish green leaves 

 without footstalks ; they are long and narrow, and stand 

 up almost straight The stalks are round, thick, green, 

 or sometimes radish, and spead at the top like the others, 

 but the flowers are small and green, and have a pretty 

 appearance at the tops of the stalks. 



Place, — It is freouently observed about Cambridge. 



Oovemment and virtues, — Spurges are mercurial plants, 

 and abound with a hot and acrid juice, which, when ap- 

 plied outwardly, eats away warts and other excresences. 



' SPUEGE (DWARJ*.)— C.%)AorWa Exigua, 



Z)6«cn».— This has a less root than the Petty Spurge, 

 and sends, forth many stalks not much branched, about a 

 foot high, thick-set with long narrow leaves like toad-flax, 

 but rounder pointed : the tops of the stalks are divided 

 into several partitions like umbels, with hollow cup-like 

 leaves pierced through the stalks of the flowers, which are 

 small and yellow ; the seed-vessel is three-square. 



Plaae. — A native of France, but it grows in our gardens. 



Virtues. — ^The virtues are same as the former, a strong 

 aud violent cathartic and emetic, but now out of use. 



