CULPEPER'S COMPLETE HERBAL

KNOTTED HEDGE PARSLEY

Description. This is a smaller plant than the former, it not growing more than a foot high. The leaves are pinnated and resemble those of the former, only they are of a paler green. The stalk is also striated, and the flowers grow in umbelliferous heads amidst the leaves; they are smaller, and of a paler purple.

Place. It is found in our southern counties, but is not common.

Time. It flowers in July and August.

Government and virtues. The seeds are carminative, and they work also by urine. They were used to be kept in the shops, but they are now rarely to be met with. They operate both upwards and downwards, and that in so violent a manner, as to be frequently productive of dangerous symptoms. There are, however, several instances of people troubled with dropsical and rheumatic compalaints, being cured by the use of them.