TAMILY IIERBAt: 123 



tlons of tliellyer : jaundices have been cured bj 



it singly. 



Dwarf Elder. Ehuliis. 



A PLANT so much resembling the common 

 elder-tree^ that it may be easily mistaken for it till 

 examined. It grows four or five feet high. The 

 stalks are green^, rounds tender^ and upright ; and 

 they have, very much the appearance of the young 

 shoots of elder ; but there is no woody part from 

 whence they rise. The leaves are large, and com- 

 posed of several pairs of others, as those of elder, 

 withanoldone at the end ; but these are longer than 

 in the elder, and they are serrated round the edges. 

 The flowers arc small and white ; but they stand 

 in very large clusters or umbels, just as those of the 

 elder ; and they are succeeded by berries which 

 ere black when ripe; but that is a condition in 

 which we seldom see them ; for the birds are so 

 fond of them, they eat them as they come to ma- 

 turity. The root is white and creeping ; and the 

 whole plant dies down every year to the gound. 



Itis wild in England^ but not common ; a great 

 quantity of it grows at the back of Cuper's gar- 

 dens. It may be dried : but the best way of 

 giving it isin the juice. This works strongly both 

 by stool and urine, ar^ has often cured dropsies. 



Dyer's Weed. Luteola. 



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AVERY singular and pretty wild plant; it 

 grows on dry banks and upon walls, and is known 

 at sight bj^ its upright stalks, and very long spikes 

 of greenish yellow flowers. It grows to four feet 

 or more in height. The stalk is thick, firm, chan- 



rielledj and in a manner covered with leaves : they 



