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F'etee.—li jpx>w% in waate grounds almoet everywhere. 



7H'fA4.— It flowers in Jul?, and the seed ripens soon after. 



Oovemment and Virtvs», — T\\\% is au herb of Veuus, and 

 excellent for the womb to strengthen and remedy all the 

 cold di8temf>ers of it, as plantain does the hot. It is hot 

 and dry, opening obstructionii, cleansing and healing : it 

 helps the yellow jaundice, the dropsy and the gout, kills 

 au<i expels worms in the belly, and causes a good colour 

 in the face and Ixxly, strengthens as well as corrects the 

 diseases of the stomach, liver and spleen; helps the cough, 

 wheezings, shortness of breath, and the defects of the reins 

 and bUdder, exf>eiliug the gravel and stone. It is excellent 

 against venomous bites, and tertian and quartan agues. 

 It consolidates and heals all wounds, both inward and 

 outward, stays bleeding, and used with honey, heals old 

 ulcers and tistulas in the legs and other parts of the body, 

 and ulcers that come in the mouth ; or used with lard, it 

 helps the swellings and pains in the secret parts. 



VINE TREE.— { ViHa Vim/era.) 



Descrip. — The root is woody, divided, and spreading. 

 The stem is covered with a rough brown bark, divided 

 into many long straggling branches, which are too weak 

 to support themselves. The leaves are large, numerous, 

 and very beautiful, of a roundish figure, but deeply divid- 

 ed into five or more lobes, shiir|>- pointed, notched at the 

 edges ; they are supported on longish leaf-stalks,and from 

 the base of these there frequently rises long, and very ro- 

 bust tendrils. The flowers are produced in clusters on long 

 leaf-stalks, which rise together with the leaf-stalks and 

 tendrils; they are small, and of a green or whitish colour. 



Oovemment and Virtues, — This is a fine plant of the 

 Sun. The dried fruit, as it comes from abroad under the 

 nam^ of raisins, and currants, is t^ood in coughs, consump- 

 tions, and other disorders of the breast The leaves of the 

 £u:^dish Vine boiled, make a good lotion for sore mouths; 

 if boiled with barley-meal into a poultice, it cools inflam- 

 mations of wounds ; the droppings of the Vine, when it is 

 cnt in the spring, boiled with sugar into a syrup, and taken 

 Inwardly, is excellent to stay womens' longings when preg- 

 nant The decoction of the leaves in white wine, does 

 the same ; or the tears of the Vine, drank two or three 

 spoonfuls at a time, breaks the stone in the bladder. Th» 

 ashes of the burnt branches make discoloured teoth white 



