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Govemfnent and Virtues, — Jupiter governs this plant. 

 The juice pressed out of the fresh plant, and inspissated to 

 an extract, has been taken in doses from haif a grain to a 

 dram, in twent j-four hours, in epileptic disorders, convul- 

 sions, and madness. An ointment made of the leavefl is 

 cooling and repelling. 



THORNBERRY (BhACK.) —(Acacia aermanica,) 



Descrip,— This shrub rises about four feet high. The 

 branches are thorny, and have a deep brown bark ; the 

 leaves are oblong, broad, and of a fine green ; the flowers 

 are white ; and the berries when ripe of a dark purple, 

 and covered with a ^yish dust. 



Place, — It grows in the hedges and borders of fields. 



Time. — it flowers in March and April, but the fruit ri- 

 pens after ail other plums whatsoever, and it is unfit to 

 eat until the autumn frost mellows it. 



Oovemment and Virtues,— AW the parts of this bush are 

 binding, cooling, and dry, and all etfectual to stay bleed- 

 ing at the nose and mouth, or any other place, the lax of 

 the belly or stomach, or the bloodv-flux, or the too much 

 abouudiug of womens' courses, and helps to ease the paine 

 of the sides, and bowels, that come by over-much scour- 

 ing, to drink the decoction of the bark of the roots, or 

 the decoction of the berries, either fresh or dried. The 

 leaves are good to make lotions to gargle and wash the 

 mouth and throat wherein are swellings, sores, or kernels, 

 and to stay the defluxions of rheum to the eyes, or other 

 parts; to cool the heat and inflammations of them, and to 

 ease hot pains of the head, by bathing the temples and 

 forehead there wi tit 



THOROUGH-LEAF.— (i?*w/>/*wrttm Campestris,) 



Desert^. — This sends forth & straight round stalk, two 

 feet high, whose lower leaves are of a blueish colour, and 

 smaller and narrower than those higher up, and stand close 

 thereto. The flowers are small and yellow, standing in 

 tufta at the heads of the branches, where afterwards grow 

 the eeed, which is blackish. The root is small, long, and 

 woody, perishes annually, after seed-time, and haee again 

 plentifully of its own sowing. 



Place,— It is found in com-fielda. 



THme. — It blooms in July. 



O ^wt nmu ntand FtrtuM.— Saturn hie the doninicB vi 



