154 The Ofeful Family Herbal. 
Fox-GLove. 
ets t T AE YS: 
A Very beautiful wild Plant, in our Pattures, 
and about Wood Sides. The Leaves are 
whitifh, and the Flowers large and red. It is 
Feet high. The Leaves are large, long, 
rough on the Surface, pointed at the Ends, and 
ferrated round the Edges, The Stalks are round, — 
thick, . firm, and upright, and of a white Colour. 
The Flowers hang down from the Stalk, ina kind 
of Spike: They are hollow, red, large, and a 
little Spotted with white, they are fhaped like the 
End of the Finger of a Glove. 
_ The Plant boiled in Ale, is taken by People of 
robuft Conftitutions, for the Rheumatifm. and o- 
ther ftubborn Complaints it works violently up- 
wards and downwards; and cures alfo Quartan 
gues, and as is faid, the F alling Sicknefs, An 
Ointment made of the Flowers of Fox-glove 
boiled in May Butter, has been long famous in 
{crophulous Sores. _ 
os The PRANK iwebven Tavs, 
ARBOR THURIFERA. 
A Large Tree, as is faid, a Native of the warm- 
_ er Countries, but we know very little of it. 
Thofe who defcribe it moft, only fay that the 
he Leaves they fay are narrow, and of 
sare filent. Some fay it is thorny. - 
and ftrong ‘Smell. Our Dru ifts kee this. | 
_ Whatever Tree produces this, it ae noble Balfam, 7 
ee ~ diffolved 
teen: But as to the Flower and Fruit, 
