citlpeper's complete hebbai* 



drunk pleutifully ; and equal parts of it, and of toad flax^ 

 should be made into a poultice with pomatum, and appli- 

 ed outwardly. This induces steep, eases the pain, and 

 lessens the bleedins. Ao ointrueut of the leaves cures 

 wounds, and is good for inflammations, ulcers, fistulas, and 

 all such runnings as abound with moisture. 



YARROW (SNEEZEWORT.MJcAi^'ora Ptarmica.) 



Descrit). — The root is long, slender, and hung with 

 many fiores. The stalk is round, upright, and two 

 feet high, of a pale green, and branched. The leaves are 

 long, narrow, of a deep green, rough on the surface, sharp- 

 pointed, and serrated at the edges. The flowers are very 

 numerous small and white, and they terminate the 

 branches. The seed is oval. 



Place.— It is common on ditch bank& 



TVwie. — It flowers in August. 



Oovemment and Virtues. — Venus governs this useful 

 plant. The leaves dried and powdered, aud snuffed up 

 the nose, occasions sneezing, and are excellent a,;ainst in- 

 vetemte head-aches. The youn^ tops are of a sharp, but 

 pleasant taste, and may be eaten in salads. It is a good 

 vulnerary, both inwardly taken in infusion, decoction, &c., 

 and outwardly applied in fomentations ; for it is a drier 

 aud astringent, and therefore proper to be used in all im- 

 moderate fluxes, whether of the bowels, or other parts, 

 especially of the menses, and in female weaknesses. 



YEW.-^{Taxus Baccatcu) 



Descrip,— It grows to be an irregular tree, spreadinff 

 widely into bniucbes. The leaves are long, narrow, and 

 placed with a beautiful regularity. The flowers are yel- 

 lowish, aud and the berries are surrounded with a sweet 

 juicy matter. 



Pace, — It grows in woods, and in gardens. 



Oovemment and Virtues. — This is a tree of Saturn. The 

 leaves are said to be poisonous ; but the wood, if it grew 

 with more regularity, would be very valuable. This tree, 

 though it has no place among medicinal plants, yet it does 

 not oeserve (at least in our climate), so bad a character as 

 the ancients gave it, viz, a most poisonous vegetable, the 

 berries of which threaten present death to man or beast 

 that eat them ; many have eaten them in this country and 

 survived. However that may be. it has very powerful 



