12 FAMILY HERP,AL. 



mrd a half of sugar. Tbev may also be dried. Tbey 

 are excellent in the whites^ ajtd all other vtcak- 



nesses. 



There is a little plant with red flowers called 



also the red archangel^ or red • dead-nettle. It 

 13 common under tliC hedges, and in gardens ; 

 the stalks are square and weak, the leaves are 

 short and notched at the edges^ and the flowers 

 small and red ; the plant is not above four or five 

 inches high^ and these flowers grow near the tops 

 among the leaves. They are in shape like those of the 

 white archangel, but small. 



The herb is used fresh or dried, and the flowers. 

 The decoction is good for floodiugs, bleedings at 

 the nose, spitting of blood, or any kind of heniorr- 

 rhage. It also stops blood, bruised and applied 

 outwardly, 



Arrach^ or Stinking Arrach. Atriplex olida. 



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p. 



A SMALL wild plant that grows about f 

 jards, and in waste grounds. The stalk 

 a foot long, but weak ; they seldom stand 

 right, the J are striated, and of a pale g 

 The leaves are small, short, and rounded, of a 

 bluish green colour, and of the breadth of a 

 shilling or les*. The flowers are inconsiderable, 

 and the seeds small, but they stand in clusters at 

 the tops of the branches, and have a greenish 

 ■white appearaiice. The wliole plant is covered 

 with a sort of moist dust in large particles, and 

 has a most unpleasant smell, l* is to be used 

 fresh gathered, for it loses its virtue in drying, 

 syrup may be made of a pint of its juice 

 and two pounds of sugar, and will keep all the 

 year. The leaves also may be heat iiito 



?crve, with three times their weight of sii^-ar. In 



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