s4 The Ufeful Family Herbal. 
and of a pale reddifh Colour, and have a Num- 
ber of Threads in the Middle. , : 
Burnet is called a Cordial, and a Sudorific, and 
is recommended in Fevers. They put it alfo 
into cool Tankards like Borrage. The Root is 4 
good Aftringent;. dried and powdered, it ftops 
' Fluxes, and Overflowings of the Menfes. 
BURNET Bax ifsc E. 
_PIMPINELLA SAXIFRAGA. 
Pretty Plant, wildin our dry Paftures, and 
** under Hedges, but not very common in all 
_ Parts of the Kingdom, it grows two Feet high, 
_and has the Flowers in Umbels. The Stalk 
is firm, ftriated, and branched ; the Leaves rifing 
from the Root are pinnated, and the leffer Leaves 
of which they are compofed, are hard, of a deep 
Green, narrow and indented. The Leaves u 
- the Stalks are fmaller and narrower ; the Flowers 
___ are little and white, but they ftand in fo large Clu 
_ ters, that they make a Figure: The Root 
_ white of a hot burning Tafte; the § 
The Root is the only Part ufed ; 
taken up in Spring before the Stalks fhoot | ; 
‘dried ; It is very good in Cholicks, and Di | | d 
* of the Stomach, and it works by Urine, 
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