224. The Ufeful Family Herbal. 
Jour, and very rough, they feel almoft prickly. 
The Flowers are little and yellow; and they 
grow from the Bofoms of the Leaves. The Root 
is long, flender, and of a red Colour. 
A Decoéttion of the frefh Roots of Madder, 
works gently by Urine, but it very powerfully 
opens Obftruétions of the Liver and Spleen. it 
is very good againft the Gravel and Jaundice. 
The Traut MAIDENHAIR. 
ADIANTUM VERUM. 
A Very beautiful Plant, of the fern Kind, but 
~._ exceeding the ordinary Ferns very much in 
Delicacy. The Stalks are fmall, black, and glof- 
fy; cach divides toward the Top, into a great 
many Branches, and on thefe ftand the fimaller 
Leaves, which make up the complete one, or the 
whole Plant; (for in this, as in the Fern, every 
Leaf is an intire Plant;) thefe are fhort, blunt, 
rounded, and notched very beautifully and regu-. 
at the Edges, and they are of a pale green 
~olour. The Seeds are fixed to the Edges of the 
under Side of the Leaves, in form of a brown — 
Powder. The whole Plant is ufed: Our Drug- 
gifts have it from France. ee 
__- when in its Perfeetion, with fine Narbonne Ho- 
ned with it, is one of the beft known Re- 
olent Cough. _ se oe 
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