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FAMILY HERBAL. Q3 



Wild Carrot. Daucus st/Ivestus. 



A COMMON plant about tlie hedges, and in 

 dry pastures. It grows near a yard high, and 

 has small flowers, and after them rough seeds dis- 

 posed in umbels, at the tops of the branches, these 

 are hollow, and thence called by the children birds* 

 nests. 



The stalks are striated and firm, the leaves 

 are divided into fine and numerous partitions, and 

 are of a pale green and hairy ; the flowers are 

 white. 



The seed is the part used in medicine, and it 

 is a very good diuretic ; it is excellent in all dis- 

 orders of the gravel and stone, and all obstruc- 

 tions of urine ; it is also good in stoppages of the 



menses. 



Candy Carots. Daucus Cretensis. 



A PLANT frequent in the east, and cultivated 

 in some places for the seed. It grows near a yard 

 high ; the stalk is firm, upright, striated, and 

 branched : the leaves are like those of fennel, 

 only more finely divided, and of a whitish colour; 

 the flowers are white, and the seeds are oblong, 

 thick in the middle, and downy. 



These seeds are the only part used : They arc 



good in colics, and they work by urine, but 

 those of our own wild plant are more strongly di 



Uretic. 



The Cascarilla Tree. CascariUa. 



A TREE of SouthAmerica, of the fruits and 

 dowers of which we have but very imperfect 



