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TORftiENTIL (CREEPING.)-('7Wm«i/*?^ Replant,) 



Descrip. — The root has a small head, with many fibrea^ 

 which are browu, tough, and of ao austere taste. The 

 leaves are divided, aad staud on short, reiidish footstalks, 

 a little hairy : they are of a fiue greeo colour, and deeply 

 serrated. The stalks rise in the centre of these, four or 

 five feet from each head of the root ; they are long, slen- 

 der, reddish, and run upon the ground, sending roots down- 

 wards at every joint, and tufts of leaves, and often stalks 

 upwards. The flowers are large, of a beautiful yellow, with 

 a little tuft of paler threads in the centre, and when these 

 fall, the seedi ripen, in a small oval cluster. 



P^ace, — It is found on the edge of Charlton forest, Sussex. 



Virtttes.— Its virtues are same as former, but leas in de- 

 gree. The flowers are binding and drying, good for dy- 

 senteries and diarrhtBHS, eBpniially attendant upon malig- 

 nant fevers; they are also alexipharmic. They are service- 

 able in hemorrhages of the nose, mouth, or womb ; they 

 fasten loose teeth, and help the falling of the arula. 



TREFOIL.— flW/o^wm.; 



Called also Honey-Suckle. 



Descrip. — The root grows long and slender, with many 

 fibres. Iche first leaves are supported on long slender foot- 

 stalks, of a pale green ; three leaves grow on each footstalk; 

 and they are of a deep green, broad, short, and marked 

 with a crescent- like white spot, in the middle. The stalks 

 are numerous, short, and procumbent : they are divided 

 into branches as they run upon the ground, and send out 

 a great many leaves of the same form and structure with 

 the first, and the stalks of the flowers among them; these 

 are slender, like those of the leaves, and of the same pale 

 green. The flowers are small and white, numerous, in a 

 round thick head, each cell containing four small seeds. 



F/ace. — It grows in almost every place in this country. 



Time. — It flowers in June. 



Oovemment and Virtues, — Mercury has dominion over 

 the common sorts. The leaves and flowers are good to ease 

 the pains of the gout, if the herb be boiled and used as a 

 clyster. If the herb be made into a poultice, and applied 

 to inflammations, it will ease them. The herb boiled in 

 lard, and made into an ointment, is good to apply to the 

 bites of «^enomou8 creature*. The decoction of the herb 



