108 The Ufeful Family Herbal. 
The CucuMBER PLAnrtT. 
CUCUMIS HORTENSIS. 
Creeping ftraggling Plant fufficiently known, 
A The. Steiks a a Yard or two long, thick, but 
fpread upon the Ground, angulated and hairy. “3 
The Leaves are broad deeply indented, and very 
rough, and’ of a bluith green Colour: The Flow- 
ers are large and yellow. The Fruit is long and 
thick; the Seeds are ufed in Medicine, and the 
Fruit fhould be fuffered to ftand till very ripe be- 
fore they are gathered. They are cooling and di-’ 
uretic, good againft Strangueries, and all Difor- 
ders of the urinary Paffages; the beft Way of 
giving them is beat up to an Emulfion with Bar- 
ley Water. 
The Wiitp CucumBer, 
CUCUMIS ASININUS. 
| THs though called wild, isnot a Native of 
~ England. t{preads upon the Ground in’the 
mner of the other Cucumber, and its Branches 
grow to a confiderable Length: They are thick, _ 
hairy, angulated, and of a pale Green and tough. 
__ The Leaves are broad at the Bafe, and narrow at 
the Point, ferrated round the Edges, and of a pale 
_ Green above, and whitith below. The Flowers 
_ are yellow, and moderately large ; the Fruit is of 
an oval Fi » and full of Juice. Care muft 
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preffed out, and a thick 
Mater that fablides from it is feparated and 
dried; the. s keep this and call it Elathe- 
um, itis a violent Purgative, but littleufed. 
