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thit plant It is useful for all sorts of bruises and wounds 

 either inward or outward ; and old ulcers and sores like- 

 wise, if the decoction of the herb with water and wine be 

 drunk, and the place washed therewith, or the juice of the 

 green herb bruised, or boiled, either by itself, or with 

 other herbs, in oil or hog's-grease, to be made into an oint- 

 ment to serve all the year. 



THOBOUGH-WAX (COMMON.) -(5wp?«irMm 

 Rotundifolium.) 



Deserip, — ^The root is long, slender, white, and furnish- 

 ed with a few fibres. The leaves are large, broad, ob- 

 long, undivided, of a blueish ^reen. The tiowers stand at 

 the tops of the branches, and are moderately large and 

 yellow. The seeds are large and round. 



Place. — It is sometimes found in com-fieldi. 



Time. — It flowers in August. 



OovemmerU and Virtues. — This is under Jupiter, and is 

 excellent to stay all kinds of fluxes of blood, or humours 

 in man or woman, whether at nose, mouth, or belly. The 

 juice of the herb or root, or the decoction, taken with some 

 Venice treacle, and the person laid to sweat, expels any 

 ▼enom or poison, or the plague, fever, or other contagious 

 diseases. 



THOROUGH WAX (WRITE.)— {Bupleurum 

 RotundijoLium Album,) 



Deserip. — This has a small fibrous, sticky root, from 

 which rise smooth, and frequeotly reddish stalks. The 

 leaves are of a blueish green colour, of an oval shape, 

 smooth, not indented on the edges, full of nerves, which 

 run obliquely from the centre to the circumference of the 

 leaf; they are perforated by the stalk, which runs through 

 them, and is divided towards the top iuto several branch- 

 es, at the ends of which grow small umbels of yellow flow- 

 ers, usually five together, upon one stalk, with as many 

 small leaves under each umbel, the three outermost being 

 largest; each flower is succeeded by two oblong seeds. 



Pace. — It grows only among the corn. 



Ti7M. — It tiowers in J une and J uly. The whole plant 

 \BUsed. 



Gi/oernmeat and KtXwM.— This is a plant of Jupiter in 

 Virao. it is among the vulnerary plants, serviceable In 

 green wounds, braises, ruptures, contusions, old ulcers and 

 sores, either given in powder or the decoction. 



