430 The Ufeful Family Herbal 
ALKANET.. 
ANCHUSA, 
A Earner is arough Plant of no great Beauty, — 
~~ Cultivated in France and Germany for the — 
Sake of its Root. It grows to a Foot and half — 
high: The Leaves are large and of a rough irre- z 
gular ‘Surface, and bluith green Colour; the 
Flowers are {mall and purplith; the Root is long 
and of a deep purple. Itis kept dried in the 
has the’ Credit of an Aftringent and 
ry, but it is little ufed. The beft Way — 
of aie oe it, is to add half an Ounce to a 
Quart of Hartfhorn Drink ;_ it gives a good Co- 
and increafes the Virtue, 
beer 
Set ANGE LICA. 
ANGELICA. 
; A Large and beautiful Plant kept in our Gar- 
/ 2 dens, and found wild in fome Parts of the 
Kingdom. Ie grows 6 eight Feet in Height, and 
_ the Stalks robuft, and divided into Branches. — 
~The Leaves are large, and compofed each of — 
_ many fmaller, fet upon a divided Pedicle; they — 
_ @re notched at the Edges, and of a bright Green. _ 
- ‘The Flowers are fmall, but. they ftand in vaft — 
ees pesusst a globofe Form: Two Seeds follow each — 
~ . Flower. * : ee 
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