FAMILY HERBAL. II 



- As much bruised aniseed as will lie on a 

 sixpence^ is excellent in cholic. 'Tis also 

 good in indigestions^ and other fcomplaints of the 

 stomach. 



Apples of Love. Poma Amoris. 



THESE are large juicy fruits^, bitt they are 

 produced not on a tree, but on a small and low 

 plant. The stalks are weak^ and divided into many 

 branches ; the leaves are large3 but they are com- 

 posed of many small ones set on a divided stalk, 

 and they are of a faint yellowish green colour. The 

 flowers are small and yellow^, the fruit is large^ and 

 when ripe of a red colour ; it contains a soft juicy 



pulp and the seeds, 



•The plant is a kind of nightshade^ we cul- 

 tivate it in gardens. The Italians cat the fruit 

 as we do cucumbers. The juice is cooling, and 

 is good externally used in eruptions on the skin^ 

 and in diseases of the eycs^ where a sharp humour 

 is troublesome. 



Archangel. Lamium Jlbum. 



A COMMON wild plants more vulgarly called 

 the dead-nettle. It grows about our hedges, 

 it is a foot high, and has leaves shaped like 

 those of the nettle, but they do not sting- The 

 stalk is square and the leaves are hairy; the 

 flowers are large and white, they stand at the joints 

 where the leaves are set on, and are very pretty. 

 The leaves stand in pair?, and the root creeps under 



the surface. ' 



The flowers are the only part* used, they are 



to be gathered in May ; and made into conserve, 



K pound of them is io be beat up with two pounds 



