20 The Ufeful Family Herbal. 
AVENS. 
'. CARRYOPHYLLATA. 
= A Common wild Plant neglected, but worthy 
of our Notice. It grows about Hedges, and 
rifes to fourteen Inches high ; the Stalk is firm 
and flender, and is divided into feveral Branches. 
‘The Leaves. are: large and rough, the Stalk alfo — 
ishairy. The Leaves that grow from the Root art + 
winged, they confift of three Pair of {mall ones, 
and one much larger at the End. Thofe on the 
Stalk are fmaller, and confift of fewer Parts; but 
otherwife they are like. The Flowers are {mall 
_and yellow; they are fucceeded by rough Heady 
as big as a Horfe-bean, compofed of many Seeds _ 
_ with hooked Filaments. The Root is fongifh | 
~ and large, of a firm Subftance, reddifh Colour, and _ 
very fragrant fpicy Smell ; it is better than many 
Drugs kept in the Shops. ae 
It is a Cordial and Sudorifie. It is good i 
nervous Complaints, and I have known it alone 
Cure intermittent Fevers, where the Bark has bec! 
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