Virtues of British herbs : With their history, and figures, and an account of the diseases they will cure ... / By John Hill.

  • Hill, John, 1714?-1775.
Date:
1772
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Virtues of British herbs : With their history, and figures, and an account of the diseases they will cure ... / By John Hill. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    \ [ 23 ] ■* \ ' >■ ' ' \ * 1 ' / . 1. BELL IS PERENNIS. # LITTLE DAISY. Plate 3. One Flower only grows upon a Stalk. This is the univerfal ornament of our paftures; w a Perennial; flowering all the Summer. Its leaflefs Stalk is three Inches high. The Leaves, which grow from the Root, are oblong, fmooth, and of a deep green. . # Its Flowers, in their wildeft and moft Ample ftate, are very pretty by their mixture of red and white; but when the gardener beftows culture on them, few things return it better : we fee them grow double, large, full, quilled, and proliferous; young Flowers furrounding the older. This is another Herb which Nature has made