144 The Ufeful Family Herbal. 
Fig-Tree produces Fruit twice in the Year ; the 
fift fet in Spring, the fecond towards September, 
but thefe laft never ripen with us. The dried Figs 
of the Grocers, are the Fruit of the fame Tree in 
Spain and Portugal, but they grow larger there, 
and ripen better. . 
Our own Figs are wholefome Fruit, and they 
are applied outwardly to Swellings with. Succefs, 
they foften and give.eafe while the Matter is form- 
ing within. 
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7 SGROPHULARI A: 
Tall and regular growing wild Plant, with — 
A {mall deep nent tents, At. grows four 
Feet high, and is common in our Woods, and 
Ditches, where there is little Water; there is an0- 
ther kind of it in wet Places, called alfo Water 
Betony, which is to be diftinguithed from it by 
the round Indentings of the Leaves ; it alfo grows 
in Water, or juft by it: The right Figwort, only — 
“oves Shade, and Dampnefs, but not abfolute — 
Wet. ‘The Stalk is fquare, upright, hollow, and 
_ Very firm; the Leaves ftand two at each Join — 
—Oppofite one to the other ; they are large, broad 
at the Bafe, narrow. at the Point, and fharply in- 
dented ; they ftand on long Foot-Stalks, and they — 
have the Shape of the Nettle Leaf, but they are 
_, _ perfeétly fmooth, and of a fhining Colour ; pc - 
_ are fometimes green, but often brown, as is alf - 
_ the whole Plant. The Flowers. are ag ee oS 
aping, their Colour is a blackifh Purple. 
‘Root is long, white, and full of little Tu 
face. bat fpreads @ great Way under the Sur- 
The Juice of the freth gat thered Root is an ex- 
cellent Sweetener of the Blood taken in fmall tt sf 
whole 
