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and flowera, with the seed and root, taken for som* time, 

 helps those troubled with the whitea The seed tod flowers 

 boiled iu water, and made into a poultice with some oil, 

 and applied, helps hard swelliugs and imposthumea. 



TREFOIL {REART.)—(TH/olium CardatU.) 



Descrip. — Besides the ordinary kind, here is one which 

 may be called Heart Trefoil, not because it is triangular, 

 like a heart, but because each leaf cou tains the perfect icon 

 of a heart, and that in its proper colour, viz., a flesh colour. 



F^ ace.— It grows by the way -side in various parts. 



OovemrneiU and Virtties.— It is under the dominion of 

 the Suu, and is a great strengthener of the heart, and cher- 

 isher of the spirits, relieving those who faint and swoon; 

 it is a remedy against poison and pestilence, and defends 

 the heart agaiudt the noisome vapours of the spleen. 



TREFOIL (PE ARL.)'-(Tnfolium Lotus,) 



Deacrip. — It differs from the common sort, only in one 

 particular, it has a white spot like a pearl, on the leaf. It 

 IS under the Moon, and its icon shows its virtues to be 

 ag&inat the pin and web in the eyes. 



TURSlF.-^Brassica Rapa.) 



This root is so well known that it needs no description. 



Piac; — It is sown in fields and gardens. 



TirM,—\t flowers in April. 



Oovemmentand Virtues. — It is under the Moon in Pisces. 

 It is a nourishiug food, more ut»eful in the kitchen, than as 

 a medicine. The juice of the sliced root extracted with 

 brown sugar-candy, strata super stratum^ baked in an oven, 

 is a good pectoral, and helps coughs and consumptions. 



TURNSOLE.— CiTtf/iolropittm Europctum.) 



Callkd also Heliotrope. 



Descr%p.—T\i\A rises with one upright stalk, about a foot 

 high, dividing itself into small branches, of a hoary co- 

 lour; at each joint of the stalk and branches grow small 

 bruad leaves, rather white and hoary. At the tops of the 

 stalks and branches stand small white flowers, consisting 

 if four small leaves, set in order one above another, upon 

 a small crooked spike, which turns inwards with a Dowed 

 finger, opening by degrees as the flowers blow open; after 

 which, in their place, come forth cornered seed, four for 

 the most part standing together ; the root is smali and 



