174 The Ufeful Family Herbal. | 
HaRTWORT. 
SESE LL 
A fall, robuft, and handfome Plant, Native of the 
~ Alps, but kept in our Gardens. It grows 
five or fix Feet in Height: The Stalk is round, 
thick, ftriated, and hollow, very firm and up- 
right, and but little branched. The Leaves are — 
very large, and they are divided into a great 
Number of Parts, by fives and by threes, they are 
of a yellowith Green. The Flowers are {mall and 
white, but they ftand in great Tufts or Umbels 
at the Tops of the Stalks, the Seeds follow, two 
after each Flower, and they are oblong, broad, 
and edged with a leafy Border, they are of 4 _ 
dark Colour, a ftrong Smell, and acrid Tafte. 
The Seeds are the only Part ufed, they pro- 
mote the Menfes, and the neceflary Difcharges 
after Delivery ; and are an excellent warm and — 
cordial Medicine, they work alfo gently by Urine, 
- and cure cholicky Pains, they are to be given m 
wder or Infufion. — ~ ee 
HAWTHORN. 
SPEN A ALBA: 
A Shrub too common in our Hedges to need 
much Defcription. Fhe Trunk is irregular, 
and feldom ftrait, the Branches are ftrong, tough, 
and thorny, and the Leaves of a .glofly Green and 
beautifully divided. The Flowers are white and 
_ The Flowers and the dried Fruit are ufed in Me- 
dicine ; they have the fame Virtue, 7 
Urine, and are good in the Gravel, and all Com- 
_ plaints of that kind: But there are fo many better 
: Thi 
