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ther broad and long, without any divisions on the ed^es ; 

 but those that riHe up after them are dented on the edges, 

 some being winged to the middle rib; the stalk rises a yard 

 or more, sometimes branched at the top, with many small 

 white flowers, of a purplish colour, tnere follows small 

 brownish white seed, that is easily carried away with the 

 rind ; the root smells more strong than either leaf or flow- 

 er, and is of more use in medicines. 



Place* — It is generally kept with us in gardens. 



Tims, — It flowers in June and July, and continues un- 

 til the frost pulls it down. 



OovemmerU and Virtues, — This is under Mercury. The 

 decoction of this herb takes away pains of the sides, pro- 

 vokes womens' courses, and is used in antidotes ; the root 

 boiled with liquorice, raisins, and aniseed, is good for dif- 

 ficulty of breathing, coughs, and to expectorate phlegm, 

 and clear the passages. If boiled in wine and drank, it is 

 ffood for venomous Dites and stings; it helps to drive wind 

 from the belly, and is of excellent property to heal inward 

 sores or wounds, and for out ward cuts or wounds, and 

 drawing away splinters or thorns from the flesh. 



VALERIAN {GILEEK^y-CPolemonium Cendeum.) 



Descrip. — The root is about a finger thick, of a brown 

 colour, growing not in the earth, but spreading itself across 

 with many white strint^s on each side ; it snoots out se- 

 veral hollow channelled stalks two or three feet high, hav- 

 ing the hollow leaves long and round-pointed, some whole, 

 and others cut in, resembling those of scabious, but that 

 they are smooth ; the leaves which grow on the stalks are 

 also much more cut in ; the stalks are divided towards the 

 top into several branches, having at each divarication a 

 lonff narrow leaf, and at the ends grow the flowers in a 

 kind of umbels, each flower being a small, long, nanx>w 

 tube, divided at the top into five segments, with as many 

 apices, of a white colour. 



Pf ace,— It is planted in gardens, and is found wild in 

 some parts of Yorkshire. 



Oovemment and Virtues. — It is under Mercury, and is 

 alexipharmic, sudorific, and cephalic, and useful in malig' 

 nant fevers, and pestilential distempers ; it helps in ner- 

 vous complaints, head-aches, trembling, palpitations of the 

 heart, vapours, &c. It is good in hysteric cases, and epi- 

 tepsies have been cored by the use of this herb. 

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