372 CULPBPER*8 COMPLETB HEBBAI* 



Place, — It is frequent on hillj heaths, in dry pasture!, 

 and bj road sides. 



^im«.~ The flowers appear in July. 



Oovemment and Virtue».-^T\i% whole plant is fragrant, 

 and yields an essential oil that is very heating. An infu- 

 sion of the leaves removes head-ache, occasioned by ine- 

 briation. It is under Venus, and is excellent for nervous 

 disorders. A strong infusion, drank as tea, is pleasant, 

 and a very effectual remedy for head-ache, giddiness, and 

 other disorders of that kind ; and a certain remedy for 

 that troublesome complaint, the night-mare. 



TOBKCQO.-^Nicotiana Tabacam,) 



Descrip, — It rises from a lone fibrous root ; the stem is 

 robust, round and hairy, branched, and two or three feet 

 high ; the leaves are large, numerous, of an oblong form, 

 pomted at the end, entire in the sides, of a dusky green 

 <K)lour, and clammy to the touch. The flowers are numer- 

 ous, large, of a reddish colour ; they terminate the stem 

 and branches, and make a pretty appeai-auce at a distance. 

 The seeds are numerous, round, and small. 



Place, — Anative\)f the West Indies, but grows in gardens. 



Time, — When sown in a hot-bed in spring, it arrives at 

 a tolerable degree of perfection in summer. 



Oovemment and Virtites, — It is a hot martial plant. A 

 slight infusion of the fresh gathered leaves vomits rough- 

 ly ; is a Kood medicine for rheumatic pains ; an ointment 

 made of them, with hog's-lard, is good for painful and in- 

 flamed piles. The distilled oil dropped on cotton cures the 

 tooth-ache, if applied. The powdered leaves, or a decoc- 

 tion of them, kill lice, and other vermin. The smoke of 

 Tobacco injected in the manner of a clyster, is of efficacy 

 in stoppages of the bowels, for destroying small worms, 

 and for the recovery of persons apparently drowned. 



TOOTHCRESS {BVhBlFEROUS.y-{Dentaria 

 BuLbifera,) 



Descrip. — The root is thick, and of an irregular figure, 

 and runs obliquely under the surface. The tirst leaves are 

 oblong, narrow, undivided, and of a pale green; they have 

 short footstalks, and rise in little tufts. The stalk is round, 

 slender, a pale green, and is a foot and a half high. The 

 leaves are placed alternately on it from the bottom to the 

 top^and they resemble those from the root: they have short 

 footstalks, long, narrow, sharp-pointed, a little undulat^ed 



