The Ufeful Family Herbal. 249 
- The Leaves of Mifletoe dried and powde: 
are a fatnous Remedy for the falling Sicknefs. 
They are good in all nervous Diforders, and have 
been known to perform great Cures taken for a 
Continuance of Time. 
The Inp1an MyRoBaLan Trex. 
MYROBALANUS INDICA. _. 
Ale Native of the warmer Climates, and not 
™ yet got into our Gardens. It grows to twenty 
Feet high. The Branches are numerous, and vi 
irregularly difpofed. The Leaves are long and 
narrow: The Flowers are white, and like the Blof- 
foms of our Plum-Trees; and the Fruit refembles 
_ a Plum, oblong and flefhy, with a long Stone or 
Kernel, but the Fruit is generally gathered before 
the Stone hardens, fo that it feems to have none. 
We ufed to have the Fruit brought over, and 
it was given as a Purge, but at prefent none_re- 
gard it. There are alfo four others of the fame 
Kind, the Names of which we fee in Books of Me- 
dicine, but the Fruits are not to be met with, 
nor is it much Lofs, for we have better Things to 
, anfwer their Purpofes. They were called the Cie 
trine, Chebule, Belleric, and Emblec Myroba- 
Jaus, they are all ufed as Purges, but common 
Sena is worth them all, zt oe 
MoonworRT. 
LUNARIA.* 
SS Very fingular and very pretty Plant, frequent ~ 
= A ae eene Por af the Kingdom, but in moft 
fifts of the Stalk one Leaf and the Flowers. The _ 
Stalk is round, firm, and thick. It is naked ee 
the Middle, and there grows the Leaf, whichis 
very fearce. It grows fix Inches high; andcon- | 
