338 The Ufeful Family Herbal. 
Clufters on the Tops of the Branches. The Root 
is of a fingular Form: It is compofed of feveral: 
long Parts like Carrots. They are of a good 
Tafte, and fome People eat them at their Tables. 
A Decoétion of them works by Urine, and is- 
good againft the Gravel. The Roots boiled in. 
Milk, are an excellent Reftorative to People who 
have fuffered long IIlneffes. — 
‘The Sroe Trert. 
PRUNOGS SYLVESTRIS. 
eh E common low Shrub in our Hedges, 
which we call the black Thorn. It is a Plum 
Tree in Miniature. Ft grows five or fix Feet’ 
high, the Trunk and Branches are all covered. 
with a dark purplifh or blackifh Bark. The Leaves 
are roundish, and of a good Green, elegantly den- 
tated about the Edges. The Flowers are finall 
and white. The Fruit is a little Plum, ef a very: 
auftere Tafte when unripe, but pleafant when 
mellow. : 
___ The Juice expreffed from unripe Sloes, isavery 
_ good Remedy for Fluxes of the Belly. It may” 
‘boiled: down to a firm Confiftence, and will fo- 
keep the whole Year. We ufed to find this dried 
Juice kept by Druggifts under the Name of German 
Acacia, but they neglect it.. \ a 
ftriated, and branched. 
like thofe. from the Root, compofed of many: 
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