118 The Ufeful Family Herbal, 
on the fame Plant: And in others, the Male — 
Flowers and the Female grow upon abfolutely 
different Plants, but of the fame Kind. Thisis — 
the Cafe in the Date Tree as we fee, and it isthe 
fame though we do not much regard it in Hemp, — 
Spinage, and many others. e: 
The Fruit of the Date is the only Part ufed, — 
It is as thick as a Man’s Thumb and nearly 
as long of a fweet Tafte, and compofed of a 
juicy. Pulp, in a'tender Skin with a Stone with- 
in it. They are ftrengthening and fomewhg 
aftringent, but we do not much ufe them. cia 
Devit’s Bir. 
SUCCISA. 
Wild Plant in our Meadows, with beads | 
Stalks, and globous Flowers. It grows two 
two Foot high. The Stalks are round, firm, = 
_ upright, and divided into feveral Branches: They 
have two little. Leaves at each Joint. The Flow- _ 
ers are as big as a {mall Walnut, and compofed of 
ny little ones; their Colour is very ftrong and 
beautiful. " The Leaves which grow from. the 
Root are four Inches long, an Inch broad, 
of a dark Green, and a hitle hairy, not at all di- 
vided, or fo much as indented at the Edges. The 
Roots are white, and compofed of a thick Head; 
eee shenely 4 if bad eco Bae 
and of a Multitude of Fibres. The 
omen fay, bit it aw2y envying, : 
are to gathered before the Stalks 
are good againft Coughs, and the 
ae Sa een Deion, The : 
ig in Owder, promotes Sweat, = 
is a good Reticioe nk suet but we neglect 
Dae 
