The Ufeful-Family Herbat. 3 
Great-Hovsterk.. = SEP, 
SEDUM MAJUS. 
Plant oe known as well ‘by its parti- 
-)) -cular, Manner. BF BOT as for. its Place. 
Growth. ‘lpi: itfelf into Clufters of a ro 
ith Figure, thefe are: compofed of Leaves, whieh 
are Saar toward the Bottom, and . Amalleft, ar 
the. End; they.are very thick. and -juicy,- broad 
at the Bafe, fharp at the Point,. flat on, the u 
Side, a little\rounded on the under, and: fome- 
what hairy at their Edges... The.Stalk grows to 
ten Inches high, ;it.is very thick, round, and juicy, 
peshe of a. redifh Colour, .and, divided: at ‘the 
ae ins a few Branches. .'Fhe Leayes on it are 
thin and narrow.» .The Flowers. are numerots, 
they are red and have a ereen.Head in rei Mid- . 
wae afterwards becomes a Clutter. ob Stods 
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*The Leaves are the Part ufed ; they are 
externally in ._Inflammations, eel are, very ufeful, 
when cooling ‘Things; may be.-employed. . The 
dices is alfq coolingyand aftringent taken in- 
pee but it is. rarely. ufed., Some praife it 
greatly for the Infammations of the Hyesaitt ods 
There j is another kind of Houfleek, ver - 
like this in Form, but of the fame Virtues, this 
is called the leffer Houfleek, - the Staiks are round, 
fmall, and redifh, and grow fix Inches high; the 
Leaves are long and rounded, not flat as others 
; and the Flowers are white, and ftand in 
akind of Tufts, like Umbels at the Tops of the 
‘This grows on old Walls, and the ee 
of Hout like the other. | 
