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when it baa fallen down. The distilled water cleaofief th« 

 skin of all discolouriugs, as mor{)how, sun-burns, pioiplea, 

 freckles, &c. ; dropped inU) the ejea, or cloths wet therein 

 and applied, takes away their heat and indammatiooa. 



TANSY (QAB,DEN.)—{Tannacetum Hortit.) 



Deacrip, — This is a low plant, which never rises up to 

 stalk, but creeps upon the ground, emitting tibres from 

 the joints, by which it roots in the earth, and spreads out 

 much ; the leaves are made up of several pinnae set oppo- 

 site, each about an inch long, and not half so broad, ser- 

 rated about the edges, covered with a shining silver-co- 

 loured down : the flowers grow at the joints, on long foot- 

 stalks, of five leaves, like Cinquefoil. The root is slender, 

 with many tibres of a dark brown colour. 



Pface, - It grows in gardens, and botanical plantations. 



Oovemment and Virtttes, — Venus owns this nerb, which 

 when bruised and applied to the navel, stays miscarriages. 

 It consumes phlegmatic humours which the cold and moist 

 constitution of winter usually atfects the body with, and 

 that was the first reason for eating Tansies in the spring. 

 The decoction, or the juice drank m wine, is a remedy for 

 all disorders that come by the stopping of urine, helps the 

 strangury, and weak reins a:^d kidneys. It is profitable to 

 to expel wind from the stomach, belly, and bowels, to pro- 

 cure womens' courses, and expel windiuess in the matrix, 

 if bruised and applied to the lower |>art of the belly. 

 The herb fried with eggs, helps to digest and carry down- 

 wards those bad humours that trouble the stomach. The 

 seed or juice given in drink to children is effectual to 

 cure worms. If boiled in oil, it is good for shrunken sin- 

 ews, or when pained with cold, if applied thereto. 



TARE (VETCH COMMON BLACK. WJShmm iTir- 

 stUuniy) ( Vicia Hirsuta.) 



Deacrip, — The stalks are angular, weak, and leaning, 

 beset alternately at the joints with long leaves, with a ten- 

 dril at their end, made of ten or a dozen small roundish 

 pinnae, a little hollowed in, with a spinulaat the end: they 

 are sometimes a little hairy. The flowers usually grow 

 two together, upright, of a purple colour, followed by small 

 flattish pods, containing three or four small black seeds. 



Place, — It is sown in the fields. 



Time. — It flowers in May, the seed is ripe in Augost 

 «nd September. 



