FAMILY HERKAL. 101 



The Cubes Plant. Cuheha 



A CLAMBERING plant of the warm cli- 



inat-^Sj but unknown in this part of the worlds until 

 described bv those who have been where it srrows. 

 The stalks are weak, angulated, and reddish; the 

 leaves are broad and short, and the flowers small ; 

 the fruit is of the bigness of a pepper corn, but a 

 little oblong, and grows on a long aod very slender 

 foot stalk. 



This fruit Is the part used ; the druggists keep 

 it. It is a warm and pleasant spice good against 

 weaknesses of (he stomach, in colics, and iii palsies^ 



and all nervous disorders. But it is seidam used 

 alone. 



The Cucumber Plant. Cucumis liortensis. 



A CREEPING straggling plant sufficiently ' 

 Itnovvn. The stalks are a yard or tv/o long, thick, 

 but spread upon the ground, angulated and hairy. 

 The leaves are broad deeply indented, and very 

 rough, ai)d of a bluish green colour; the flower* 

 are large and ycWow. The fruit is long and thick ; 

 the seeds arc used in mediciiie, and the fruit should 

 be suffered to stand till very ripe before they are 

 gathered. They are cooling and diuretic, good 

 against stranguries, and all disorders of the urinary 

 passages ; the best way of giving them is beat up 



to an emulsion with barley water. 



The Wild Cucumber. Cucumis asininus. 



L^J 



THIS, though called wild, is not a native of 

 England. It spreads upon the ground in the 

 manner of the other cucumber, aud its branches 

 grow to a considerable length; they are thick. 



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