72 | The Ufeful Family Herbal. 
GREAT CELANDINE. 
CHELIDONIUM MAJUS. 
A Common wild Plant with large Leaves, and 
yellow Flowers : Which, when broken in any 
Part, Stalk, or Leaves, emits a yellow Juice. It : 
grows three Feet high, but the Stalks are not 
very robuft, they are round, green, and naked, 
with thick Joints. The Jueaves ftand two at each 
Joint, they are large, long, and deeply divided 
at the Edges, and are of a yellowith Green. The 
Flowers are fmall, but of a beautiful Yellow, and tee 
they ftand on long Foot-Stalks feveral together. = 
Celandine fhould be ufed-frefh, for it loofes as 
the greateft Part of its Virtue in drying. Thess 
Juice is the beft Way of giving it; and this is an 
_ excellent Medicine in the Jaundice: It is alfo 
good againft all Obftructions of the Vifcera, and 
if continued a Time, will do great Service againft 
the Scurvy. The Juice alfo is ufed juccefsfully 
for fore Eyes. 
eae aoe CELANDINE. | 
~ CHELIDONIUM MINUS. 
|; HE great and the little Celandine, are Plants _ . 
~ fo perfectly different, that it is hard to con- 
ceive what could induce the old Writers to call 
them both by the fame Name, They hardly a- 
‘gree. in any Thing, except it be that they have 
_ both yellow Flowers. The great Celandine ap- 
proaches to the Nature of the Poppy the {mall 
_Celandine to that of the Crow-foot; nor are they 
anymorealike in Virtuesthanin Form. = 
__ Little Celandine is a low Plant, which is feen 
almoft every where in damp Places in Spring, 
with broad deep green Leaves, and o offy yellow 
me Flowers. It does not srow to any Height. The | 
