28 The Ufe eful Famil, by Herbal. 
The aces whee 
ARBOR BDELLIUM FERENS. 
“WE are very well acquainted with the Gum, — 
or rather Gum Refin called Bdellium, but — 
we know very little of the Tree from which it is 
produced; the beft Defcription we have of it, 
amounts to no more than that it is moderate- 
ly large, bufhy, and full of Branches with 
Prickles upon them, and with oblong and broad 
Leaves deeply indented at the Edges, fo that they 
refemble Oak-Leaves: And that, when the young — 
Shoots are broken, they yield a milky Juice. But 
even this does not come upon Certainty, that is, — 
we are not affured, that this Tree produces the — 
very Gum we fee. This is of a red brown Colour, © 
and bitterifh Tafte. ; 
It is a good Medicine in Obftructions of the ia 
= Liver and Spleen, but it is not much ufed, - 
FABA, 
TH H E cbmmon Garden-Bean is faficently Ee 
known; it grows to a Yard high, its Stalks 
are angular, and the Leaves which are of the 
winged kind, ftand one ateach Joint; the Flowers _ 
are “white rd with Black, and are finely 
fcented. £% Pods and their Seeds need not be 
Tt has been cuftomary to diftil a Water from 
Bean-Flowers, and ufe it to foften the Skin, but 
common diftilled Water does as well. It is other= 
wife with the Water of the Bean-Pods. Thefe 
are to be bruifed, when the Beans are half ripe in 
them, and diftied with Water in a common _ 
ape. The Water is a es: gentle Carmi- 
ae native, 
