The Ufeful Family Herbal. 35% 
: STAR-WORT. 3 | 
AS THES IC US, 
A Common wild Plant, in many Parts of Europe 
and inthe Grecian Iflands, but not here: We 
have it in Gardens. It is a Foot and half high, 
_ The Stalk is round, hairy, and branched, the 
Leaves are oblong, moderately broad, and round- 
ed at the Ends, and of a dufky Green. The 
Flowers are yellow and large, they refemble the 
Marigold ; it is fingular, that there ftand fome 
Leaves under this Flower difpofed in Rays like 2 
Star; the Root is long. 
The frefh Leaves are ufed, and that only ex- 
ternally. Bruifed, and laid on as a Pultice; they are 
a Cure for Buboes, and other hard Swellings. 
The Plant is called alfo Ingunialis from its pecu-. 
liar Effect in diffipating Buboes of the Groin. | 
~The Star THISTLE. 
CALCITRAPA. 
Wild Plant on our Heaths, but not very 
common. It is two Feet high; and extremely 
branched, the Stalks are round, hard, and whitifh. 
The principal Leaves rife from the Root, and are’ 
difpofed in a circular Manner on the Ground. 
They are oblong, and divided along the Sides, 
quite to the middle Rib, there are fome fimaller on 
the Stalk, but few. The Flowers are numerous: 
Fhey are red, and of the Form of the Flowers of 
Thiftles. ‘They grow out of a fcaly and thorny 
Head. The Seeds are winged with Down. The 
Root is oblong. 
‘The Root is ufed; a ftrong Infufion of it is ex-— 
 eellent againft theGravel, and is good alfo in the 
Jaundice. It opens Obftruétions, and works by 
Urine. oe 5 
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