14 The Ufiful Family Herbal. 
ARON. 
ARUM. 
A Very common Plant under our Hedges, and 
| more vulgarly called Cuckowpint, and, by 
the Children, Lord and Lady. The Root is of — 
the Bignefs and Shape of a Walnut, brown on 
the outfide and white within, and this, as well as 
the whole Plant, is of a tharp and acrid Tatfte. 
This. Root lies deep. The Leaves are large and 
_fhaped like the bearded Head of an Arrow, of 
green Colour; and fometimes fpotted. 
| in fori and May rife among thefe thick Stalks 
fuppo a very fingular kind of Flewer, the 
Pointal o: which is long, thick, flefhy, and of a 
red or. hae Colour, and the whole furrounded 
_ with a green membranaceous Cafe. Afterwards 
- this Cafe and the Pointal fall off, and there re- 
“mains only the Stem fupporting a Quantity of 
Berries, which are ripe in Autumn, and are then 
3 of fine red. Golous. = 
 TheR is the Part ufed. It is an excellent 
dicine in Pa Half one of the sei: 
rand brvfe will fometimes 
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> Vieni is pres! out Ditches | 
| ‘id in watery Places. It is a Foot and a half high: 
the Stalks a ne eee 
