The Ufeful Family Herbal. 313 © 
Virtue. The Conferve is beft made by beating 
up the frefh gathered Tops with three Times their 
Weight of Sugar. The famous Hungary Water . 
is made alfo of thefe flowery Tops of Rofemary. 
Put two Pound of thefe into acommon Still, with — 
two Gallons of Melafies Spirit, and diftill off one - 
Gallon and a Pint. This is Hungary Water. > 
Rosa Soris, oR SUNDEW. 
ROS SOLIS. pet 
A Very fingular and very pretty little Plant, 
common in boggy Places on our Heaths. It 
grows fix or feven Inches high. The Leaves all - 
rife immediately from the Root, they are roundifh 
‘and hollow, of the Breadth of a filver Two-pence, 
and placed on Foot-Stalks of an Inch long, they 
arc covered in a very extraordinary Manner with - 
long red Hairs, and in the midft of the_hotteft 
Days, they have a Drop of clear Liquor, ftanding 
-onthem. The Stalks are flender and naked; at 
their Tops ftand little white Flowers, which. are 
fucceeded by Seed-Veffels, and of an oblong 
Form, containing a Multitude of {mall Seeds, 
The Root is fibrous. 
‘The whole Plant is ufed frefh gathered. Itis 
efteemed a great Cordial, and good againft Con- 
vulfions, hyfteric Diforders, and T remblings of 
the Limbs; but it is not much regarded. — 
RuvuBARB. 
RHABARBARUM. 
A fall robuit, and not unhandfome Plant, 2. 
: Native cf many Parts of the Z/f, and of late 
got into our Gardens, after, we had received many 
others falfly called by its Name. - 
