50 The Ufeful Family Herbal. 
BucKTHORN. 
SPINA CERVINA. 
A Prickly Shrub common in our Hedges, with 
pale green Leaves, and black Berries. It 
ows to eight or ten Feet high. The Bark 1s _ 
Sarkacelehsoe and gloffy, and the Twigs are tough. 
The Leaves are oval, of avery regular and pretty 
Figure, and elegantly dented round the Edges. 
The Flowers are little, and inconfiderable ; they 
are of a greenifh Yellow, and grow in little 
-Clufters.. The Berries which are ripe in Sepi 
ber, are round, gloffy, black, as big as the large 
__Pepper-Corns, and contain each three or 
‘The Juice of the Berries, boiled up with Suga, 
~ makes a good Purge; but it is apt to gripe, um 
lefs fome Spice be added. in the making: It 
rough Purge, but a very good one. ue 
_ Bucksworn Pranrarn. 
+ A Very pretty little Plant which grows in 
~“* fandy and barren Places, with the L 
fpread out in Manner of a Star, all the Way roum 
from the Root; and in the Heads like other Plan 
_ tains, although fo very unlike them in its Leaves 
The Root ts long and fiender: The Leaves wi 
hie thus flat upon the Ground, are narrow 
: Sel Gees SE notched and divided fo 
femble a Buck’s Horn, whence the Name, 
: pale whitith Green, and a little hairy- 
Stalks are flender, fix Inches long, but fel 
e-ere&t : They are round, hairy, and whi- 
have at the Top a Spike of Flowers of am 
