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FAMILY HERBAL. 8i 



The Cloye Spice Tree. Caryophyllus aroma' 



A BEAUTIFUL tree, native of the warm 

 countries; it grows twenty or thirty feet high, 

 and very rauch branched. The bark is greyish ; 

 the leaves are like those of the bay-tree^ but twice 

 as large ; they are of a bright shining green, and 

 stand Upon long foot-stalks ; the flovt^ers are 

 Tiot very large, but of a beautiful blue colour, 

 *nd the cups that contain them are oblong and 

 firm ; these are the cloves of the shops. The 

 gather them soon after the flowers arc fallen 

 when they suffer them to remain longer on th 



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The cloves are excellent against disorders of 

 the liead^ and of the stomach ; they "die warm, 

 cordialj and strengthening ; thej expel wiutfj^ 

 and are a good remedy for the colic. The oil of 

 cloves is made from these by chemists ; it cures the 

 tooth ach ; a bit of lint beihg wetted^ with it, and 

 laid to the tooth. 



Cockle. Pseudomelantlvium. 



A TALL, upright, and beautiful plant, wild in 

 our corn-fields, with red flowers, and narrow 

 leaves. It is two ieei high : the stalk is single, 

 slender, round, hairy, very firm, and perfectly 

 upright. The leaves stand two at a joint, and 

 are not very numerous : they are long, narrow, 

 hairy, and of a bright green colour: the flowers 

 stand singly, one at the top of each bianch. They 

 are very large^ and of a beautiful red. They have 

 an elegant cup, composed of five narrow haiiy 



leaves^ which are mach longer thap the flower 



