204 The Ufeful Family Herbal. 
Larxks Spur. 
~DELPHINIUM. 
A Common Flower in our Gardens, but not 
“~~ without its Virtue. It grows a Yard high; 
the Stalks are round, upright, firm, and of a 
pale Green. The Leaves are cut into a Multitude 
of long, narrow, and very fine Divifions, and 
are of a deep green Colour, and the Flowers which 
grow in long Spikes at the Tops of the Branches 
are naturally blue, but often red or white. They 
rah derately Jarge and have a kind of Spur be- 
_ The Leaves are ufed; they mutt be boiled frefh. 
in Water, and the Decottion is good againtt the 
Bleeding Piles. It ftops the Hemorrhage, and at 
the fame Time cools the Body, whereas too many 
of the reftringent Medicines are heating. | 
LAVENDER. 
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