CULPEPER'S COMPLETE HERBAL

CORN FEVERFEW

Description. This is an hateful weed to farmers; but yet it possesses virtues that may recompence all the damage it can do among the corn. It sometimes grows to a foot and a half high, with a pale, slender, branchy stalk: the leaves are of a pale green, and they have no smell. The flowers are large and white, with a high yellow disk in the middle, and the leaves are cut into many darts as fine as threads.

Place. They are found commonly in corn-fields.

Time. They blow in July.

Government and virtues. These have the virtues of the flowers of camomile, but with more cordial warmth. for those who have cold and weak stomachs, scarcely any thing equals them. They are best taken by way of infusion like tea.