. FAMILY HERBAL. 55 



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Calves' Snout or Snapdragon, Jntirrhimtm. 



A COMMON wild plant in many parts of 

 Europe, and is very frequent in o?jr gardens, and 

 upon the walls of gardens : Its natural situation 

 is on hills among barren rocks^ and nothinf^ 

 comes so near that^ as the top of an old wall 

 with us : the seeds are light and arc easily car- 

 ried thither by the wind^ and they never fail ta 

 strike^ and the plant flourishes. It is two feet 

 ^ high, the stalks are round, thick, firm, and to- 

 lerably upright, but generally a little bent tow^ards 

 the bottom ; the leaves are very numerous ; 

 they are oblong, narrow, not indented at the cdges^ 

 blunt at the ends, and of a bluish green colour. 

 The flowers are large and red, they stand in a kind 

 of loose spikes upon the tops of the stalks ; the root 



i» white and oblong. 



The fresh tops are used ; an infusion of tliera 

 Works by urine^ and has been recommended by 

 somein the jaundice, and in other diseases arising 

 from obstructions of the viscera ; but we have 

 *o many English plants that excel in this particu- 

 lar, and the taste of the infusion is so fac from 



that it is not worth while to have 



to it. 



Camel's HAr* Sclienanthus. 



A SORT of grass of a fragrant smell, frequent 

 in many parts of the East^ and brought over 

 to us dried for the use of medicine. It grows \o 

 a foot high^ and in all respects resembles some of 

 our common kinds of grass, particularly the dar- 

 nel. The Uaves are long and narrow : the 

 stalks are rouDd and jointed, and have grassy leaves 



ako on them, and the flowers stand on the tops of 



