264 The Useful Family Herbal. 
mawkifh Tafte. The Root is long. The Berries 
are fatal, Children have often eat them, and pe- _ 
rifhed by it. The Leaves externally applied are 
cooling and foftening, they are good againft the 
Ringworm and Tetters, and againft hard Swel- 
lings. They have very great Virtue in this Re- 
fpect, but the Plant fhould be kept out of the Way 
of Children, or never fuffered to grow to Fruit, as 
the Leaves only are wanted. 
- oe The NutmMec TREE, 
ao NO A MOSCHATA. 
A Tall, fpreading Tree, Native only of the © 
warm Climates: The Trunk is large, and the 
Branches are numerousand irregular ; the Bark is of 
a greyifh Colour, and the Wood light and foft, 
The Leaves are large, long, and fomewhat broad: 
they are not unlike thofe of the Bay Tree, but 
bigger, and are of a beautiful Green on the up- 
per Side, and whitifh underneath. They ftand 
uregularly, but often fo nearly oppofite, that 
_ that they feem in Pairs, as we fee in the Leaves of 
fome of our Willows. The Bloffom is of the — 
Shape and Bienefs of that of our Cherry Tree, but 
its Colour is yellow. The Fruit which fucceeds ~ 
this, is of the Bignefs of a fmall Peach, and not 
unlike it in the generalForm, when cut open there 
appears firft the flefhy Coat which is a Finger 
_ thick, and of arough Tafte, then the Mace fpread - 
-Weoften have the whole Fruit fent over pre- 
TI e] utmeg is an excellent Spice, it ftrength- 
ens the Stomach, and affifts Digettion. Tt will 
{top Vomitings, and is good againit the Cholic, 
_ When roafted before the Fire. and mixed gt 
BS 3: 
‘over a woody Shell, in which is the Nutmeg. — 
