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Its purgative quality naturally led me to give it in febrile diseases which seem to arise from viscidity in the primae viae; and in these cases it succeeded to admiration, even when the sick did not void worms. Bot. TANACETUM vulgare. TANSY. Herb. E. D. Considered as a medicine, it is a moderately warm bitter, accompanied with a strong, not very disagreeable flavour.
Nature in some twenty odd years had draped the cliff with fern the Polypodium vulgare and Mrs Bosenna in her early married days had planted the crevices with arabis, alyssum, and aubrietia, which had taken root and spread, and now, overflowing their ledges, ran down in cascades of bloom white, yellow, and purple.
L. E. The leaves are ranked the first of the four emollient herbs: they were formerly of some esteem, in food, for loosening the belly; at present, decoctions of them are sometimes employed in dysenteries, heat and sharpness of urine, and in general for obtunding acrimonious humours: their principal use is in emollient glysters, cataplasms, and fomentations. MARRUBIUM vulgare. HORFHOUND. Herb.
LOOSESTRIFE. The juice of the whole herb is used to dye woollen yellow. MYRICA Gale. SWEET GALE. The whole shrub tinges woollen of a yellow colour. NYMPHAEA alba. WHITE WATER-LILY. The Highlanders make a dye with it of a dark chesnut colour. Light. Fl. Sc. ORIGANUM vulgare. WILD MARJORAM. The tops and flowers contain a purple colour, but it is not to be fixed. PHYTOLACCA decandra.
L. E.-It is a moderately warm aromatic, yielding its virtues both to aqueous and spirituous liquors by infusion, and to water in distillation. It is principally celebrated in disorders of old people. An essential oil of the herb is kept in the shops. The powder of the leaves proves an agreeable errhine. ORIGANUM vulgare. POT MARJORAM. Herb.
This is a neat-growing shrub, of very dwarf growth, with hairy leaves and yellow flowers; and H. polifolium roseum, has pretty rosy-red flowers. H. UMBELLATUM. South Europe, 1731. A neat, small-growing species, with white flowers and glossy-green leaves covered with a rusty-white tomentum beneath. H. VULGARE. Common Rock Rose.
BLACK BRYONY. The root is one of the best diuretics known in medicine. It is an excellent remedy in the gravel and all obstructions of urine, and other disorders of the like nature. TANACETUM vulgare. TANSY. The Leaves. These have a bitterish warm aromatic taste; and a very pleasant smell, approaching to that of mint or a mixture of mint and maudlin.
A portion of all the other sorts should be sown, as they are all very good, and some kinds will keep, when others will not. ONION, WELSH. Allium fistulosum. This is sown in August for the sake of the young plants, which are useful in winter salads, and are more hardy than the other cultivated sorts. PARSLEY. Petroselium vulgare.
But we leave a subject which we have incidentally touched, sincerely disclaiming any attempt to estimate the character or define the greatness of Webster. In reference to him we feel, as Cicero said to Cæsar, "Nil vulgare te dignum videri possit."
Professor Heer has recognised lumps of carbonised wheat, Triticum vulgare, and grains of another kind, T. dicoccum, and barley, Hordeum distichum, and flat round cakes of bread; and at Robbenhausen and elsewhere Hordeum hexastichum in fine ears, the same kind of barley which is found associated with Egyptian mummies, showing clearly that in the stone period the lake-dwellers cultivated all these cereals, besides having domesticated the dog, the ox, the sheep, and the goat.
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