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Rough Shepherd's Needle

Description. This grows from a long, slender, white fibrous root, with finely divided leaves, which are deeply serrated, of a pale green, and very like those of the common parsley. The stalk is round, upright, green, and a yard high. The flowers grow at the tops of the branches in little umbels, surrounded with numerous long and slender leaves, forming a kind of general cup. The seeds are small, brown, and striated.

Place. It is common in hedges, on ditch-banks, and in gardens. Time. It is an annual and flowers in May.

Government and virtues. It is under Venus, and should be gathered when that planet is in exaltation-Some account it to be a poisnous plant, but there does not appear any thing certain on that head. It has been tried and found to be innocent. It is accounted to be hot and dry, comforting the head and stomach, and helping vertiginous disorders. It is likewise a good deobstruent, opening obstructions of the womb, and procuring the catemina.