A new medicinal, economical, and domestic herbal: containing a familiar and accurate description of upwards of six hundred British herbs, shrubs, trees, etc. together with some of themost esteemed ... exotic plants ... / The whole compiled and selected from the works of Linnaeus, Bechstein, Withering, Dambourney, Barthollet, etc.

Date:
1808
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Credit: A new medicinal, economical, and domestic herbal: containing a familiar and accurate description of upwards of six hundred British herbs, shrubs, trees, etc. together with some of themost esteemed ... exotic plants ... / The whole compiled and selected from the works of Linnaeus, Bechstein, Withering, Dambourney, Barthollet, etc. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    * weed are used, as a nostrum, for dissolving the stone in the blad- der.—According to Dr. Withering, the accrimony of this herb •rises on distillation ; and 2 or 3 half pints of the water, drunk dai- ]v, have been found very effectual in some nephritic cases. It imparts a yellow colour of wool. The Water-Pepper is refused by every species of cattle. W A T E R- R A DIS H .—See Rad i sh-Watcr-erm. WATER-SOCKS.—See White Water -Lily. WATER-TREFOIL.—See Trefoil-Buckbean. W A Y-BENNF.T.—See Wall-Harley. WAY-BREAD.—See Greater Plantain. W A Y F A RING-TREE. —Sec Mealy Guelder-rose. WEASLE-SNOUT} Yellow Archangel, or Yellow Dead-nettle.—Is an indigenous perennial, growing in woods, shady places, and moist hedges ; blowing in the month of May. The'flowers of this plant afford to bees an abundant supply of honey WELSH BISTORT.—See Bistort, the Small. WELD.—See Di/er’s-weed. WHEAT.— A genus of plants, comprehending about 16 spe- cies, of which the following are the principal : I. See Dog's-Grass. II. The Spring Wheat, is probably a native of Southern Sibe- ria and Sicily, whence its culture has been gradually dispersed throughout Europe : it ripens about the same time as the winter, or common wheat, even though it be sown in February or March. This species is divided into the following varieties, namely : 1. The Spring-wheat, with a red spike or ear, and grain. 2. The Red Spring-wheat, with a white ear. 3. The Spring—wheat, with a white spike and grain These, and all other varieties of the same species, are beardless, and may be sown from the end of February till early in May. They are not easily affected by moisture, or severe frost, and afford excel- lent starch. III. Winter or Common Wheat, is principally raised in Britain: its grains arc somewhat fuller than those of the preceding species ; and its chief varieties are : 1. The Common Wheat, with a red ear and grain. 2. T he Common Wheat, with a wrhite ear. 3. The Winter Wheat, with white ears and grains.—These varieties are also destitute of beards, and should not be sown ear- lier then in September, nor later then in November.— They pro- duce the most valuable wheat, which yields the largest proportion of flour. IV. The Tl.’ck-spiked, or Cone Weat, each plant bearing from four to eight ears, and each of the latter from 30 to 70