UO FAMILY HERBAL. 



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are good inmost chronic disorders. The powder of 

 gentian v/ill cure agues. 



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Germander. Chamcedrys, 



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A LITTLE plant, native of many parts of 

 Europe, but with us kept in gardens. It grows 

 a foot or more in height, hut rarely stands quite 

 upright. The stalks are square, green, and a httle 

 hairy. The leaves stand two at each joint. They 

 are oblong, deeply indented at the edges, of a 

 iirra substance, green on the upper side, but hairy ■ 

 underpeath. The flowers are small and purple, like 

 the flowers of the little dead nettle. They stand in 

 clusters about the upper joints of the stalks, and 

 appear in July. 



Germander is an herb celebrated for many 

 virtues. *Tis said to be excellent against the 

 gout and rheumatism: however that be, it p.u- 

 motes urine and the menses, and is good in all 



obstructions of the viscera. The juice is the 

 best way of giving it, but the infusion is more 

 frequent. 



Water- Germander. Scordhan. 



A LITTLE mean looking plant, wild in some 



parts of England, but kept in gardens also for its 

 virtues. The stalks are square, hairy, of a dusky 

 green, and so weak, that they seldom stand 

 much up* They are eight or ten inches long. 

 The leaves are short, broad, and indented' about the 

 edges, but not sharply or deep as those of the other 

 germander: they are of a sort of woolly soft ap- 

 pearance and touch, and of a dusky deep green 

 coh)ur. The flowers are verv small and red. and 



