168 The Ufeful Family Herbal. 
The Leaves which rife from the Roots are large, 
and they are compofed each of feveral {maller, fet 
on a divided Rib, in the Manner of thofe of An- 
gelica, of which they have fome Refemblance. 
They are of a pale green Colour, and are oblong 
and indented at the Edges. The Stalks are round, 
upright, and a little branched, they are flender, 
ftriated, and green ; the Leaves on thefe are {mal- 
Jer, and confift of fewer Parts than thofe that rife 
from the Root. The Flowers are little and white, 
and they ftand in fmal! round Clufters ; each is 
fucceeded by two flat Seeds. The Root creeps. _ 
- The Root and frefh Buds of the Leaves are — 
both ufed, but only externally; they are excellent © 
in Fomentations, and Pultices for Pains; and the 
Plant has obtained its Name from their fingular 
Efficacy againft the Pain of the Gout; but it is 
not advifable to do any Thing in that Diforder; 
the warm Applications of this kind, are of all 
others the leaft dangerous. I have known a Quan- 
tity of the Roots and Leaves boiled foft together, 
and applied to the Hip in the Sciatica, keeping a 
frefh Quantity hot to renew the other, as it grew 
cold, and TI have feen great good Effect from it. 
Its Ufe fhould not be confined to this Pain alone. 
It will fucceed in others. 
GROMVEL,. 
LITHOSPERMON.. 
Wild Plant of no great Beauty, but diftinguifh- 
~~ ed by its Seeds, which are hard, glofly, and 
refemble fo many Pearls, as they ftand in the open ~ 
Hufk. The Plant grows a Yard high. The 
Stalk is round, thick, firm, very upright, and 
branched. The Leaves‘ are oblong, not very 
broad, rough and hairy, ofa deep blackith green 
Colour, 
