144 FAMILY HERBAL. 



a proraoter o^vencrea! desires ; but with what tnitU 

 one cannot say. Extercally applied in cataplasms, 

 it is excellent in hard swellings. There are a great 

 many other kinds of orchis in our meadows, but 



only this is used. The root^ called salcp by our 

 dru£^g:ists, is brought from Turkey, and is the root 

 of a plantof this kind. It is strengthening and 

 restorative^ good in consumptions aud all decays. 



Fox-GLovE. Digitalis. 



A VERY beautiful wild plant, in our pastures, 

 and about wood sides. The leaves are whitish^ 

 and the flowers large and red. It is three feet 

 high. The leaves are large, long, rough on the 

 surface^ pointed at the ends, and serrated round 

 the edges. The stalks are round, thick, firnr, and 

 upright, and of a white colour. The flowers 

 liang down from the stalk in a kind of spike : they 

 arc hollow, red, largo, and a little spotted with 

 white ; they are shaped like the end of the finger 

 of a glove. 



The plant boiled in ale, is taken by people of 

 robust constitutions, for the rheumatism and other 

 stubborn complaints ; it works violently upwards 

 and downwards ; and cures also quartan agues, 

 and as is said, the falling sickness. An ointment 

 made of the flowers of fox-glove boiled iu May 

 butter, has been long famous in serophulous sores. 



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The Frankincense Tree. Arbor ihurtfcra. 



A LARGE frcc^ as is said, a nativer of the 



wanner counlries, but we know very little of it. 

 Those who describe it most> only say that fhe trunk 

 is thick, the wood spungy, and the bark rough. 



