nS FAMILY HERBAL. 



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it ^\ill fake effect much better than bv a lai'gcr dose 

 swallovyed at once. 



Elm, Ulnius, 



A TALL tree native of our own countrjj and 

 sufficiently common in our hedges. It grows to a 

 great bigness. The bark is brownish^ roughs and 

 irregular ; the twigs are ulsobrown^ and very tough. 

 The^eaves are small, broad^ shorty rough to the 

 touchy and finely indented about the edges, and they 

 terminate in a point. The flowers are not regarded ; 

 they appear before the leaves, and principally about 

 the tops of the tree,, and they are only thready ; the 

 seeds are flat. 



The inner bark of the elm boiled in water, makes 

 one of the best jrarsles for a sore throat that can 

 Lc supplied by the whole list of medicines. It 

 should be sweetened with honey of roses ; it i? 

 extremely soft and healing, and yet at the same time 

 Yery cleansing. 



There are two or three other kinds of elms com- 

 mon in garden hedges ; they are brought from other 

 countries, but the bark of the English rough elm is 

 preferable to them all as a medicine. 



Endive. EndldcL 



A COMMON garden plant kept for salads. It 

 grows two feet high, and the flowers are blue, but 

 we see it a thousand times with only the leaves 

 lor once in a flower, and these the gardeners have 

 the art of twisting and curling, and whitening in 

 fcuch a manner, that they are scarce to be known, 

 as belonging to the plant. Naturally they are long 



»nd narrow, blunt at the end. and deeply notched 



