a8 The Ufeful Family Herbal. 
=e mshi opELus VERUS RAMOSUS 
known fingly to perform Cures in Jaundices and 
AsPARAGUS. 
ASPARAGUS SATIVUS. 
PP HE Afparagus Plant is one whofe Root 
is ufeful in Medicine, although a different 
Part of it be eaten at the Table. — Its Virtues” 
are not unlike thofe of the Artichoke Root but 
greater. *. mage me 
The Afparagus is a wild Plant in many Parts 
of England about the Sea-Coaits, and its Root, it 
this wild State, is better than that of the cultivated 
Plants, but its Shoots have not that fine flefhy 
Fulnefs. The Plant, when full grown, is three 
Feet high, and very much branched, and the 
Leaves are fine and of a pale Green; the Flowers 
are fmall and greenifh, but the Berries which fue 
ceed them, are as big as Peafe and red. ° ae 
~ The Root is a powerful Diuretic, and is good 
in all Obftructions of the Vifcera. It. has been ; 
It is bet given in Decoétion. 
_ ASPHODEL. 
ALBUS. 
AN elegant Garden Flower 
