136 The Ufeful Family Herbal. 
are broad, oblong, and jagged and prickly. The 
Flowers grow in little Heads at the Tops of the 
Stalks, and there ftands a Circle of fmall Leaves 
under them. The Flowers, feparately, taken are 
fmall, and of a pale greenifh White, but the Head 
of them is tolerably large. The Root is long and 
flender, and of a pleafant Tatte. 
This is the Part ufed, the beft Way is to take 
them candied, they are goog againft Coughs, and 
Weaknefles of all kinds.. They have alfo caufed 
noble Virtues, as a Diuretic, and are good againft 
the Jaundice, for this laft Purpofe a Deco¢tion 
made from the frefh Roots is beft. They are 
balfamic as well as diuretic. 
‘The EvpuorsBium PrantT. 
EUPHORBIUM. 
A Very ftrange Plant, Native of the hot Coun- 
*™* tries, and unlike every thing that is known 19 
this Part of the World, Tt is ten or twelve Feet _ 
‘high, and is.of a folid thick Body, of a triangv- 
_ TaFor elfe a fquare Figure as thick as a Mans 
Leg, and is divided by Knots placed at Diftan- 
ces, fo as to feem made up of feveral Joints. The 
Edges of the Body are all befet with very fharp 
Prickles ; the Plant itfelf is compofed only of 4 
pulpy foft Matter, covered with a thick Rind, of 
a green Colour; it abounds with a milky Juice 
but fo acrid that there is no bearing a Drop of it 
_ Moment on the Tongue. The Plant often con- 
but frequently it fends out feveral Branches : Thefe 
are naked in the fame Manner as the main Stem. 
_ All that have befide the Prickles,’ are a kind of 
_ thin Films or Membranes, fmall and sai 
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