The Ufeful Family Herbal. 9% 
Obftruétions, and are excellent in the Jaundice, 
and other Complaints from like Caufes. 
ComFrRey. 
SYMPHY TUM. 
A Common wild Plant of great Virtue, it is 
frequent by Ditch fides ; it grows a Foot and 
half high: The Leaves are large, long, not very 
broad, rough to the Touch, and of a deep dif- 
agreeable Green: The Stalks are green, thick, 
angulated, and upright. The Klowers grow a- 
long the Tops of the Branches, and are white, 
fometimes redifh, not very large, and hang, often 
_ downwards. The Root is thick, black, and ir- 
regular ; when broken it is found to be white 
within, and full of a flimy Juice. This Root is 
the Part ufed, and it.is beft frefh, but it may 
be beat up into a Conferve, with three times its 
- Weight of Sugar. Itis a Remedy for that terri- 
ble Difeafe the Whites. It is alfo good againft 
fpitting of Blood, bloody Fluxes, and Purgings, 
and for inward Bruifes. 
~The ConTRAYERVA PLANT. 
— CONTRAYERVA. 
A Very fingular Plant, Native of America, and. 
not yet got into our Gardens. It confifts only 
of Leaves rifing from the Root, upon fingle Foot- 
Stalks, and Flowers of a fingular kind ftanding alfo 
weveeend feparate Foot-Stalks, with no Leaves 
upon them. The Leaves are large, oblong, very 
broad, and deeply divided on each Side, their Co- 
lour is a dufky Green, and the Foot-Stalkson 
which they ftand are {mall and whitifh, and often 
bend under the Weight of the Leaf. The 
_ Which fupport the Flowers, are fhorter and 
