476 The Ufeful Family Herbal. 
Plant has a ftrong. difagreeable Smell, and has 
“been called poifonous. , Bil 
The Roots are excellent in Pultices for hard 
Swellings. 
Hemp. 
ae CANNABIS. 
HE=p is a tall Plant, of a coarfe Afpedt, culti- 
vated in Fields for its Stalk. It grows five 
Feet high, and is a robuft Plant; the Stalk is — 
thick and rigid; the Leaves are numerous, they _ 
are large and each compofed of fix or feven {mal- 
ler, thefe are difpofed in the Manner of Fingers; 
and are of a deep green Colour, rough, narrow; 
and ferrated at the Edges. The Flowers in Hemp 
grow in fome Plants, and the Seeds on others.’ 
The Flowers are inconfiderable, and whitifh, the 
Seeds are large, roundifh, grey, and have a white 
Pulp within. The Root is fibrous. The Seeds are 
ufed in Medicine, an Emulfion made of them 
cures the Jaundice... ; oH 
~, Hemp Acrimowny. es 
EUPATORIUM CANNABINUM. 
A fall Plant growing by Waters, with Tufts of 
red Flowers: and Leaves, divided in the 
Manner of thofe of Hemp. - It grows five Feet 
high, the Stalk is round, thick, redifh, and very 
_ Upright. The Leaves are large, of a pale Green, 
and fingered ; they ftand two at. each Joint, the 
+Owers grow in Bunches as big as a Man’s Fifty 
iy of the Branches, and are of a bright 
The : Root frefh gathered and boiled in Ale is 
ufed in fome Places as a Purge, it operates wets ; 
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