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Heart's-Ease

Name. It is called in Sussex pansies, and is so well known by almost every person, that I shall decline troubling my readers with a description of it. Place. Besides those which are cultivated in gardens, they grow wild in barren and unfertile grounds.

Time. They flower and seed all the time of spring and snmmer. Government and virtues. This is a Saturnine plant, of a cold, slimy, and viscous nature. A strong decoction of the herb and flowers is an excellent cure for the venereal disorder, being an approved anti-venerean; it is also good for the convulsions in children, falling sickness, inflammations of the lungs and breast, pleurisy, scabs, itch, &c. It will make an excellent syrup for the aforesaid purposes.