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'Tis rooted with a great 
many Fibres. The Branch- 
es bending to the Earth, 
fometimes turn to Roots j 
and fo by creeping it in- 
creafes. The Stalks are 
fometimes two Foot high, 
downy, round, fmall, and 
weak ; to which the Leaves 
grow by Intervals, oppolite 
to one another, without 
Foot-ftalks ; they are in- 
dented, hairy, very green, 
and wrinkly ; from a large 
Bafis, they grow by de- 
grees pointed, but not very 
fharp. The Flowers come 
from the Wings of the 
Leaves, and grow like an 
Ear, and feem as if they 
had four Leaves, tho’ they 
have really but one, for 
they are entire at bottom : 
They are of a plcafant 
Sky-colour, and fhine, and 
are ftreakM with deep co- 
lour'd Lines , and white 
in the Middle , where is 
a very fmall Violet-Pillar, 
with two Threads, fuftain- 
ingthe white Tufts. The 
Cup of the Flower has 
four Leaves. The Flow- 
ers are placed upon fhort 
Foot-ftalks, coming from 
the Bofom of a fmall Leaf. 
The Seed Veffels are flat, 
and Twiris, like thofe of 
Speed- well, 
’Tis hot and dry, and 
iomewhat bitter. ’Tis good 
for a Cough, at the Begin- 
ning of a Dropfie, for an 
ill Habit of Body, the 
Green-ficknels , an hard 
Spleen, the Strangury, and 
Obftrutftions of theBowels. 
The Garden-Germander 
provokes Urine and Sweat 
powerfully ; upon which 
Account it is good in Fe- 
vers, for the Scurvy, and 
for the Blood when coagu- 
lated ; but efpecially for 
the Gout, the Jaundice, 
and Suppreilion of Urine. 
It was commended to the 
Emperour Charles V. as an 
Arcanum for the Gout. ’Tis 
outwardly ufed for Eating 
Ulcers, for the Piles, the 
Itch, and to dry Catarrhs. 
’Lis frequently ufed in a 
Dccodtion to open Wo- 
men’s Obftrucftions. ‘Tis 
called in Cambridgejbire 
Englijb- Treacle. Take of 
the dried Leaves of Ger- 
mander, Ground-Ivy, and 
White Hoar-hound, each 
one Handful; of the Roots 
of Elecampane, and Floren- 
1/ne-Flawer-de-luce, each 
one 
