130 The Ufeful Family Herbal. 
Root. When dried it may be given in Powder to 
ftop the Whites and Purgings, it is a gentle and 
fafe Aftringent. - 
There are feveral other Plants called-in Engl 
Dropworts, which are very different in their Qua- 
lities, and one of them is poifonous in a terrible 
Degree; this laft is called Hemlock Dropwort; 
care muft therefore be taken that the right kindis 
ufed, but this is fafficiently different from all the 
others. “The Flower is compofed of fix little 
Leaves, andis full of yellow Threads in the Mid- 
de, the Flowers of aH the others are ome 
‘only of five Leaves each. ‘They are all umbelli 
ferous Plants, but this is not; the Flowers grow 
in Clufters, but not inUmbels: They grow like 
thofe of the Ulmaria or Meadow Sweet. 
DuUCK-WEED. 
LENTICULA. 
* 
* face of the Water, and fend their Roots into it 
for Nourifhment, without fticking them into 
Mud. It isthe {mall green Herb that coversa- 
moft all our ftanding Waters in Summer. 
are two other kinds of it, one with fmaller Leaves 5 
and many Fibres from each, another with only 
_ one Fibre from each Leaf: Both thefe are gree? 
all over; and a third kind with larger Leaves 
which are purple underneath, but all thefe have 
__ the fame Virtue, and it is no Matter which is 
ae 
verfully by Urine, and opens Ob- 
‘A Small green Herb, confifting of fingle, little 
“* roundifh Leaves, which float upon the Sur-. 
the Liver: Jaundices have been cure? 
* Cg nee 
ee, 
"-Dwark 2 
