134 FAMILY HERBAL. 



w^ - 



not mucli^^od, but I have known a jaundice cured 

 hy it, takWin the beginning. 



Feverfew. Matricaria. 



A COMMON wild plant, with divided leaver, 

 and a multitude of small flowers like daisies; it 

 ^rows about farmers' 3?ards. The stalk is rounds 

 hollow^ upright, branched, and striated^ and grow <i 

 two feet high. The leaves are large, divided into 

 wany small ones, and those roundish and indented ; 

 they are of a yellowish green colour^ and particular 

 smell. The flowers stand about the tops of the 

 stalks, they are small, white round the edges^ and 



yellowish in the middle. The root is white, little, 



and incbnsiderahle. 



The whole 



fresh. 



but it preserves some virtue dried ; it is to be given 



disorders 



promotes 



The Fig-Tree. Ficus. 



A SHRUB sufficiently known in our gardens. 

 The trunk is thick, but irregular, and the branches, 

 which are very numerous, grow without any sort 

 of order. The leaves are very large and of a deep 

 blackish green, broad, divided deeply at the edges^ 

 and full of a milky juice. The flowers are con- 

 tained within the fruit. The fig-tree produces 

 fruit twice in the year ; the first set in spring, the 

 second towards September, but these last never 

 ripen with us. The dried figs of the grocers are 

 tlie fruit of the same tree in Spain and Portugal, 



but tbcy grow larger there, and ripen 

 Our own fig 



and they 



