In Isla and Jura the inhabitants garnish their dishes with it, and lay it between their linen, and other garments, to give a fine scent, and to drive away moths.

The Swedes dye their yarn with it of a yellow colour, and sometimes use a strong decoction of it to kill bugs and lice, and to cure the itch.

The cones boiled in water will yield a scum like bees wax,

capable of being made into candles, similar to those which the Americans make of the berries of Myrica cerifera. Lin. or candle-berry myrtle.

Linnæus, from the smell of the plant, is induced to suspect that Camphor might possibly be prepared from it.

Order VI. Polygamia.

VALANTIA CRUCIATA. Cross-wort or Mug-weed. The plant, particularly the roots, will dye a red colour.

It has an astringent quality, and has been reckoned amongst the vulneraries, but is at present out of use.

PARIETARIA OFFICINALIS. Pellitory of the Wall. It has a watery, nitrous, diuretic quality. Three ounces of the juice, taken internally, have been found very serviceable in the stranguary.

The plant laid upon heaps of corn infested with weevils, is said to drive away those destructive insects.

Order VII. Didynamia.

GLECOMA HEDERACEA. Ground Ivy. It is made into tea, and constitutes the pleasantest beverage for children instead of the foreign tea, and is thought to be antiscorbutic.

PRUNELLA VULGARIS. Self-heal. It is astringent and vulnerary, but is rarely used at present, except by the common people, who bruise and apply it to fresh wounds, and take it in broths and apozems for spitting of blood, and use it by way of injection in the bloody-flux, and other hemorrhages. MENTHA ARVENSIS. Corn Mint. The plant smells much like the blue part of a decayed cheese.

Linnæus says, that the milk of cows which have fed upon this plant can hardly be made to turn to curds.

PULEGIUM. Pennyroyal. Distilled it is an excellent cordial for young girls, and assists the operations of nature.

THYMUS SERPYLLUM.

Mother of Thyme. It has a pleasant aroma tic scent, and is esteened a good nervine. An infusion of it by way of tea is reputed to be an almost infallible cure for that troublesome disorder the Incubus, or night-mare.

BALLOTRA NIGRA. Stinking Horehound. The plant has a strong fœtid smell, and has been sometimes recommended in hysteric cases, but is at present little used.

MARRUBIUM VULGARE. White Horehound. It has a strong and somewhat musky smell, and bitter taste. It is reputed attenuant and resolvent. An infusion of the leaves in water, sweetened with honey, is recommended in asthmatic and phthisicky complaints, and most other diseases of the breast and lungs.

TEUCRIUM SCORODONIA. Wood Sage. The plant has a bitter quality, and smells like hops, with a little mixture of garlick. In the island of Jersey the inhabitants use it in brewing instead of hops. An infusion of it stands recommended in the dropsy. BETONICA OFFICINALIS. Wood Betony. The roots in a small dose have an emetic quality, and the powder of the dried plant is a good errhine, and readily promotes sneezing. NEPETA CATARIA. Cat-mint. The plant has a bitter taste and strong smell, not unlike pennyroyal.

An infusion of it is reckoned a good cephalic and emmenagogue, being found very efficacious in hysterics and the chlorosis. Cats are extremely fond of this plant, whence the name. LAMIUM ALBUM. White Archangel, or Dead Nettle. An infusion of the plant is found a very strong bracer. The young leaves in the spring are boiled and eaten as greens by the common people in Sweden.

PURBUREUM.

Red ditto. This is also eaten in Sweden like

the preceding. EUPHRASIA OFFICINALIS. Eyebright. It has been reputed good for sore eyes, but the faculty have declared it does more harm than good in applications of that kind, there having been instances of persons rendered almost blind by the use of it. The Highlanders do however still retain the practice of it, by making an infusion of it in milk, and anointing the patient's eyes with a feather dipped in it.

RHINANTHUS CRISTA GALLI. Yellow-Rattle, or Cock's Comb. The seeds, when ripe, rattle in their capsules, and indicate the time of hay-harvest.

It has a bitter and somewhat acrid taste, but is eaten by cattle. MELAMPYRUM PRATENSE. Meadow Cow-wheat. Linnæus tells

us, that where this plant abounds the yellowest and best but ter is made.

DIGITALIS PURPUREA. Purple Foxglove. The plant has a bitter quality; six or seven spoonsful of the decoction are a strong emetic and cathartic. It has been found serviceable in scrophulous cases, taken internally for some time, and the bruised leaves for an ointment applied outwardly; it is used now in dropsy and consumption.

SCROPHULARIA NODOSA: Knobby-rooted Fig-wort. The leaves have a fœtid smell, and bitter taste. A decoction of them is said to cure hogs of the mange.

An ointment made of the root has been formerly used to cure the piles and scrophulous sores, but is at present out of practice. ANTIRRHINUM LINARIA. Common Yellow Toad-flax. An oint

ment made of the leaves stands recommended as a cure for the piles.

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PEDICULARIS SYLVATICA ET PALUSTRIS. Common Marsh and Dwarf Louse-wort. These plants are rarely eaten by cattle, but when they are, they arc supposed to make them lousy, whence the name.

Class V. Pentandria.

Order I. Monogynia.

LYTHOSPERMUM OFFICINALE. Gromwell. Linnæus informs us that

the country girls in Sweden paint their faces with the roots. CYNOGLOSSUM OFFICINALE. Hound's-tongue. No quadruped

except the goat will eat it.

ANAGALLIS ARVENSIS. Common Pimpernel. It varies with scar

let and blue flowers, which open at eight o'clock in the morn ing, and close about noon. Small birds are very fond of the seeds of this plant.

ATROPA BELLADONNA. Deadly Nightshade. The berries of this plant are of a malignant poisonous nature, and, being of a

sweet taste, have frequently been destructive to children. A large glass of warm vinegar, taken as soon as possible after eating the berries, will prevent their bad effects.

PRIMULA VERIS. Cowslip. Oxlip. Primrose. The segments of the flowers within, near the base, are marked with red or saffron-coloured spots, which our poet Shakespeare prettily supposes to be the gifts of the fairy-queens, and to be the source of their sweet odours. He thus introduces a fairy speakingAnd I serve the fairy-queen,

To dew her orbs upon the green;
The cowslips tall her pensioners be,
In their gold coats spots you see ;`
Those be rubies, Fairy favours,

In those freckles live their savours:

I must go seek some dew-drops here and there,
And hang a pearl in every cowslip's ear.

MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM, Act 2, Sc. 1. HYOSCYAMUS NIGER. Common Henbane. The whole plant is covered with unctuous foetid hairs: the flowers are yellow, reticulated with violet-coloured veins. The root, leaves, and seed, are a most powerful narcotic: a few of the seeds have been known to deprive a man of his reason and limbs.

RHAMNUS CATHARTICUS. Buckthorn. The juice of the berries, in the quantity of five or six drachms, is a strong purge; but it is generally made into a syrup for this purpose, two ounces of which is a dose. The bark is emetic. The juice of the unripe berries with alum, dyes a yellow colour; of the ripe ones, a green colour. The bark also dyes yellow.

CUSCUTA EUROPEA.

Order II. Digynia.

Dodder. It is a parasitical plant of a very

singular nature, destitute of leaves and roots.

It consists only of red, succulent, thread-like stalks, twisting about the plant on which it grows in a spiral direction, contrary to the sun's motion, and drawing its nourishment from it by small sucking papillæ, fixed into the pores of the bark or rind, thereby exhausting the foster-plant of its juices, imbibing its virtues, and often destroying it.

GENTIANA. Gentian. All the Gentians are esteemed to be good sto

machic bitters, and are recommended in the ague, and to strengthen the stomach.

Linnæus informs us that the poor people in Sweden use the cam}

pestris, instead of hops, to brew their ale with.

SALSOLA KALI. Prickly Glass-wort. Tho ashes of this plant abound with alkaline salts. One species of the genus (the S soda) is much used upon the coasts of the Mediterranean in making pot-ash, soap, and glass. The term alkali originally took its rise from the salts extracted from the ashes of this last mentioned herb, which was called by the Arabic chemists and physicians, KALI.

CHENOPODIUM BONUS HENRICUS. English Mercury, Wild Spinach, or All Good. The young leaves in the Spring are often eaten as greens, and are very good tasted.

ALBUM.

Frost Blite. In Isla the poor people

tender shoots, when blanched, may be eaten like asparagus. Lin. Fl. Suec.

SANICULA EUROPEA.

Sanicle. It has long been esteemed as an astringent and vulnerary, both in external and internal applications.

CENANTHE CROCATA. Hemlock Dropwort. The roots and leaves of this plant are a terrible poison; several persons have perished by eating it through mistake, either for water-parsneps or for celery, which last it resembles pretty much in its leaves. So extremely deleterious is its nature, that I remember to have heard the late Mr. Christopher D. Ehret, that celebrated botanic painter, say, that while he was drawing this plant, the smell or effluvia only rendered him so giddy, that he was several times obliged to quit the room, and walk out in the fresh air to recover himself; but recollecting at last what might probably be the cause of his repeated illness, he opened the door and windows of the room, and the free air then enabled him