= 140 The Ujeful Family Flerbal. 
HocGs FEennet. 
PEUCEDANUM. 
Wild Plant with divided Leaves, and Um- 
_ bels. of yellow Flowers, and thence bearing a 
remote Refemblance of Fennel. It grows two 
Feet high; the Stalk is round, ftriated, hollow, 
upright, and branched. The Leaves are like thofe 
of Fennel, but the Divifions are much. broader, 
and they run in threes. The Flowers are little and 
yellow, but the Clufters of them are large, and 
the Seed is oblong and flat. At the Top of the © 
Root, there is always found a Tuft of hairy Mat- 
_ter. This is made up of the Fibres of decayed 
Leaves, but it has a fingular Appearance. The 
Root is large, long, and brown, and this is the Part 
ufed as a Medicine, It is to be boiled in Water, 
and the Decoétion drank Night and Morning ; it 
diffolves tough Phlegm, and helps afthmatic Peo- 
Pes it alfo works by Urine, and promotes the 
Menies, and is good in all Obftructions. 
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FQ2NUM GRACUM. 
A Plant of the Trefoil kind, but fingular in its 
“~~ Manner of Growth, cultivated in Fields in 
__ many Places for the Sake of the Seed. It is emol- 
_Tient, It grows a Foot and half high ; the Stalks 
are round, — ftriated, and branched. The Leaves 
are Short and broad: They ftand three upon every 
Sa as in the common Trefoils; and are indented 
{mall - Edges. The Flowers are white and 
Pode and they refemble a Pea Blofiom ; the 
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