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Willow, when it flowers, the bark being slit, if rery good 

 for dimness of sight, or tilms that grow over the eyea, 

 itaying the rbeums that fall into them; it provokes urine, 

 if drank, and cleai-s the face and skin from spots and dia- 

 colourings. The decoction of the leaves or bark in wine, 

 takes away scurf and dandrif by washing the place with it 



WINTER GREEN.— (PyroZa Minor.) 



Detcrip. — The leaves resemble those of the Pear-tree^ 

 bat not so large ; they grow on footstalks two or three 

 inches long, smooth, and of firm texture. The stalks grow 

 A foot high, bearing on their tops several small five leav- 

 ed white flowers, having a few stamina in the middle, ris- 

 ing one above another in a loose spike, succeeded by cor- 

 nered seed-vessels, full of small seed ; the root is small, 

 ■lender, and fibrous. 



P^ace, — It erows in woods, both in tha north and west. 



Time, — It flowers in July. 



Oovemment and Virtues. — This is another Lunar plant 

 The leaves are the only part used, are cooliug and drying, 

 and a good vulnerary both for inward and outward wounds 

 and hemorrhages, ulcers in the kidneys or bladder : as also 

 Againit making bloody water, and excess of the catamenia. 



WOAD (COMMON.)— (/w^w Tinctoricu) 



Detcrip. —It has large leaves, long and broad, of a green- 

 ish colour, somewhat blue. From amon^^ these leaves 

 rises up a lusty stalk, three or four feet high, with leaves 

 set thereon; the higher the stalk rises, the smaller are the 

 leaves ; at the top it spreads divers branches, at the end of 

 which appear very pretty little yellow flowers, and after 

 they pass away, come husks, lon^, and rather flat ; in form 

 they resemble a tongue ; in colour they are black, and 

 bang downwards. The root is white and long. 



Place. — It is sown in fields,and reaped three times a year. 



Time. — It flowers in June, but it is long after before 

 the seed is ripe. 



Oovemment and Virtue*. — It is a cold and dry plant of 

 Saturn. An ointment made of the leaves stanches bleed- 

 ing. A plaster raaiie thereof, and applied to the region of 

 the spleen which lies on the left side, takes awa^ the hard- 

 ness and pains thereof. The ointment is good m such ul- 

 cers as abound with moisture, and takes away the corrod- 

 ing and fretting humours ; it cools inflammations, quench- 



