MEDICINAL PLANTS OF YORKSHIRE. 
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Mentha fiperita ; herb. Brick-Kilns at Dring-houses, near York (naturalized). 
Peppermint is extensively cultivated here for medicinal purposes. Sto¬ 
machic, carminitive, 
Origayium vulgare ; herb. Thorp-Arch Woods. Stomachic errhine. • 
Tiigitalis purpurea / leaves. Langwith, This stately and elegant plant is 
very common in some parts of Yorkshire, as at Doncaster, and may be 
considered as the most important British contribution to the Materia 
Medica. It is a very powerful medicine, and was first brought into gene¬ 
ral notice by Withering, who wrote a small 8vo. work upon it. Sedative, 
diuretic. 
Cochlearia officinalis; herb. Hob Moor, near York, Antiscorbutic. 
Cytisus scopdrius ; tops. Middlethorpe, Langwith, &c. Diuretic. 
Lactuca virosa ; leaves. Thorp-Arch. N arcotic. 
Leontodon taraxacum. Meadows and pastures. Root. Diuretic, resolvent, 
aperient, 
Artemisia absynthium. Near villages, &c.; not in the immediate neighbour¬ 
hood of York. It is a fact worthy of notice, that notwithstanding the 
severity of the weather during the autumn of 1836, the Common Southern¬ 
wood CArtemisia ahrotanum) was in full bloom at the end of September 
and beginning of October, in a small cottage garden at Clifton, near York. 
Tussilago farfara; leaves. Brick-kilns, Heworth, Hobmoor, &c. This pest 
to the farmers is not so common in the neighbourhood of York as it is in 
many places. As yet no means seem to have been adopted or discovered 
for effectually eradicating it. Demulcent, expectorant. 
Solidago virgaurea ; herb. Thorp-Arch Woods. Vulnerary. 
Inula helenium ; root. Field near Overton Wood. I was so fortunate as to 
discover this locality in a botanizing excursion, about a year and a half 
ago; the habitat is in a place far removed from any dwelling, and appears 
to be a truly wild one for the plant. Stimulant, diuretic, expectorant. 
’^Bryonia dioica. Hedges, &c. 
Quercus rohur; bark, astringent and tonic. Hedges. At Overton Wood, 
Theda quercus^ the Purple Hairstreak, the caterpillar of which feeds 
upon the Oak, is abundant. 
Humulus luqjulus; narcotic and diuretic. Fulford, &c. The female catkins. 
"^MercUrialis perennis. Side of the road beyond Acomb. This plant has 
occasioned accidents, from its being gathered for Chenopodium Bonus- 
Henricus^ Mercury Goosefoot; it flowers, however, early in the year 
while the latter does not till the end of summer. 
Doncaster., March 10, 1837» 
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