876 CITLPBPIB'S OOMPLBTB HERBAL. 



threadj, perishing every year, and the seed shedding every 

 year, raises it again the next spring. 



Place, — It grows in gardens. 



Oovemment and Virtues. — It is an herb of the Sun. If 

 boiled in water and drank, it purges both choleraud phlegm, 

 and boiled with cummin, helps the stone in the reins, kid- 

 neys, or bladder, provokes urine and womens' courses, and 

 causes an easy and speedy delivery in child-birth. The 

 leaves bruised and applied to places pained with the gout, 

 or that have been out of joint, and newly set, and full of 

 pain, give much ease ; if the juice of the leaves, with a lit- 

 tle salt be rubbed upon warts or wens, and other kernels in 

 the face, eye-lids, or any other part, it will take them away. 



TUTSAN. — (Hypericwm Androscemum.) 



Callbd also Park Leaves. 



Descrip,— The stalks otow three feet high, smooth, red- 

 dish, not much branched, with two large oval brown green 

 leaves set opposite at every joint, on short footstalks, those 

 next the ground being smallest. The flowers grow several 

 together, on long footstalks, of five small yellow roundish 

 leaves each, with stamina in the middle of the same colour, 

 yielding a reddish juice, and are succeeded by berry-like 

 seed-vessels, green at first, and afterwards of a deep pur- 

 ple, almost black, containing small seed in purplish juice; 

 the root is thick, of a reddish colour, with many fibres. 



Place. — It grows in woods, groves, parks, forests, and 

 by hedge-sides, in many parts of this country. 



Time. — It flowers later than St Peter^s wort. 



Government and Virtues. — It is an herb of Saturn, and 

 an anti-venerean. It purges choleric humours, helps the 

 sciatica an^ gout, and heals burns ; it stays the bleeding of 

 wounds, if the screen herb bruised, or the powdered herb be 

 dried and applied. It is a sovereign remedy for either 

 wound or sore, either outwardly or inwardly, if used in 

 drinks, lotions, balms, or ointments; and also in any other 

 sort of green wounds, old ulcers, &c. 



VALERIAN (GAB,DElH.)--( Valeriana ffortense.) 



Descrip. — This has a thick, short, greyish root, lying 

 above ground, shooting forth small pieces of roots, which 

 have afi of them many long green strings and fibres under 

 them in the ground, whereby it draws nourishment. From 

 the hedd of these leaves spring up many green leaves, ra- 



