112 The Ufeful Family Herbal. 
right, and often purplifh, efpecially towards the 
Bottom. The Flowers are chaffy, and they grow 
from the Top of the Stalk, with feveral fmall 
and fhort Leaves fet under them ; they are brown 
and light. The Root is compofed of a great 
Quantity of black Fibres, to which there grows 
at certain Diftances roundifh Lumps. Thefe are 
the only Parts ufed in Medicine. Our Druggifts 
keep them. They are light, and of a pleafant 
Smell, and warm fpicy Tafte. 
They are good in all nervous Diforders. They 
are beft taken in Infufion, but as the Virtues are 
much the fame with the other, that is beft, be- 
caufe it may be had frefher. 
The Cypress TREE. . 
~ CUPRESSUS. 
A Tree kept in our Gardens, an Evergreen, and 
fingular in the Manner of its Growth. It 
rifes to twenty or thirty Foot high, and is all the 
~ way thick befet with Branches. Thefe are largeft 
_ towards the Bottom, and fmaller all the way Ups 
fo that the Tree appears naturally of a conic Fi- 
gure. The Bark is of a redith Brown. The 
caves are fmall and fhort, they cover all the 
Twigs like Scales, and are of a beautiful deep 
Green. The Flowers res 
