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FAMILY HERBAL 



The Black Currant. Bihesia nigra. 



THIS 



a little shrub, of late brought very 



universallv^ into our gard 



It grows th 



four foot high. The branches are weak;, and the 



bark is smooth. Th 



and broad 



and d'ivided in the manner of those of the co 

 currants ; but they have a strong smell. 

 flowers are greenish and hollow. The fr 



Th 



IS 



large and round berry, black, and of a some- 



hat disagreeable taste, gro 



manner of 



the currants. 



The juice of black currants boiled up with 

 gar to a jelly, is an excellent remed/^against 

 throats. 



SOT a 



Long Cyperus. Ct/jperus lon^us. 

 A WILD plant in our marshes, fens, and other 



damp places. It is a fo4)t and half high. The 

 leaves are a foot long or more, narrow, grassy, and 

 of di bright green colour, flat, and sharp at the 

 ends. The stalk is triangular and green ; there 

 are no leaves on it, except two or three small ones 

 at the top, from which there rises a number oi 

 small tufts or spikes of flowers. These are brown, 

 light, chaffy, and in ail respects like those of the 

 other water grasses. 



The root is used. It is long and brown, and 

 when dried, is of a pleasant smell, and aromatic 

 "Warm taste. It should be taken up in spring. It 

 is good against pains in the head, and it promotes 



urme. 



RouMD Cyperus. Ct/perus rotundus. 



A PLANT in many respects resembling the other, 



