883 ottlpspeb's complxtb hebbal. 



the pains in the back, loins, and kidneys. The distilled 

 water when the herb is in flower, or its chief strength, ap- 

 plied inwardly or outwardly, is good for the same purposes. 



WAKE ROBIN (GOLDEN.)— {^ rum Macufatum.) 



Detcrip. — This neglected plant has a roundish tuberous 

 root, brown on the outside, white within, placed at no con- 

 siderable depth,aud furnished with a few fibres. The leaves, 

 which are marked with beautiful gold-coloured veins, rise 

 alternately across the stock ; they are oblong, smooth at 

 the edges, pointed at the en^s, and of a fine fresh green, 

 and often some spots of white are visible on them. The 

 stem is round, thick, and ten inches or a foot hivh. On its 

 top stands a single flower, of a tine yellow, which is after- 

 wards succeeded by fine bri^jht red berries. 



Place.— \X is found under hedges, and in moist meadows. 



Time. — It flowers in May. 



Government and Virtues. — It is under the dominion of 

 the Sun. The root is a powerful antiscorbutic, and by the 

 activity of its subtle parts, it cuts all vitscidities, and is of 

 service in humourous asthmas, in which case it should h« 

 bruised and gently boiled in a closed vessel, in half white- 

 wine, and half water, and sweetened with houey of roses. 

 The root bruised and mixed with cows' dung, and applied 

 warm in a fit of gout and rheumatic pains will ease them. 

 The root beat up with vinegar and laid upon a bruised 

 part will dissipate stagnant blood, and prevent blackness 

 of the skin. 



WALL-FLOWER (COMMON.)— (CAwran^Aia Ch^H.) 



Descrip. — The root is divided into a number of strag- 

 gling parts, each furnished with numerous fibres. The 

 stalk is round, firm, upright, hard, and very much branch- 

 ed. The leaves are long, narrow, and of a fresh green ; 

 They have no footstalk, they adhere by the base, and are 

 undivided at the edges. The flowers grow in spikes at the 

 top of the stalks and branches, and are large, yellow, and 

 sweet scented. The pods are long, slender and whitish ; 

 the seeds are flatted and small. 



Place. — It is common on old walls, and in some places 

 on rocks ; and has thence, for its beauty and fragjrance, 

 been Introduced into gardens, where the flower, and indeed 

 the whole plant, grow much larger than in the wild state. 



TVfiiA — It flowers in May and June. 



