352 The Ufeful Family Herbal, - 
The STARRY HrabDED ANISE 
pik Se So — 
ANISUM STELLATUM. 
A Tall and very beautiful Tree, Native of the 
Eajt, and much efteemed there. The Trunk 
is covered with a thick Bark: The Branches are 
uregular, and fpreading. The Leaves are very 
large and beautiful, they are compofed each of 
ten or twelve Pair of others fet on a common Rib, 
with an odd one at the End; they are longith, 
broad, ferrated at the Edges, and pointed at the 
Ends, and are of a. beautiful pale green Colour, 
and of a fragrant Smell when bruifed, fuch as that 
we perceive in the young Leaves of the Walnut- 
Tree, but with a Mixture of fomewhat aromatic. 
The Flowers ftand at the Tops of the Branches, on 
divided Pedicles, they are white and very fragrant. 
The Fruit is ofa fingular Figure, of the Shape of 
a Star, and of a woody Subftance ; it is compofed 
_ of five or more Rays, and in each is a fingle 
-fmooth brown Seed. Thefe have the Smell of 
- Anifeeds, and thence shave: been called by the 
Name, for there is not the leaft Refemblance be-’ 
tween the Plants which producethe two, one being 
a {mall Herb,-and the other a large and fine: 
Tree, ete “ 
The Fruit is only ufed, and we fometimes fee it. _ 
at the Druggifts, if the prefent Practice encouraged 
it, we might have it common enough; and it is 
one of thofe Drugs which we negleét, while we 
are fond of fuch as do not deferve the Diftinétion. 
It is an excellent Medicine againft Coldnefs of 
the Stomach, Cholics, and thofe Head-achs which 
arife from Indigeftion. It alfo works powerfully by . 
_ Urine; and with it poffeffes all the Virtues of 
Asnifetcd and many others, and even thefe in a 
: very “ 
