If4 FAMILY HEUBAL. 



the preceding, but very different botli in face an4 

 viitues. The root is little ; from this grow abun- 

 dance of stalks ; they are round, weak, and unable * 

 to support themselves ; they spread every w^ay 

 uboiit, and are six inches in length. The greatest 



stalk is covered with leaves, so that it 



part of every 



f llie thickness of 



little finger ; these leaves are short and thick ; they 

 ^re of a fine green colour, and are broad at the base, 

 and sharp at the point. The flovt^ers are little, and of 

 a bright yellow ; they grow in great numbers, from 

 the tops of these branches, and are of the shape of 

 4hose of coramon faouseleek^ and rounded by such 

 seed vessels. 



The juice of this kind of houseleek^ is excel- 

 lent against the scurvy and all other diseases arising 

 from A?vdiat is called foulness of the blood. It 

 is said that a continued course of it will cure 

 king's evil : but we want experience to support 



this. 



The Hypocist. Ht/pocistus. 



A VERY singular plants native of the Grecian 

 ialands, and of some of the warmer parts of Europe. 

 It is .five inches high. End of a singular figure, 

 ft does not grow in the earth at large as other 

 plants, but to the root of some species of cistus ; 

 &3 missleloe grows te the branches of trees. The 

 sialic is thick and fleshy, and is often twice as large 

 toward the top, as at the bottom. It is whitish, or 

 yellowish, or purplish, and has a parcel of short 

 wid broad skinny films, by way of leaves upon it. 

 The flowers grow at the top, with leaves of the same 

 kind among them. They are large and beautiful, 



^ftad are succeeded by fruits of a roundish figure. 



