176 FAMILY HERBAL. 



narrow, and sharp-pointed : fjiey stand two at 

 every joint. The flowers are long, moderately 

 large, and yellow ; they grow from the bosoms of 

 the leaves, and are hollow, and only a little divided 

 at the ends : they are somewhat like fox- glove 

 flowers. 



A decoction of the fresh plant is an cxeellent 

 purge, but it works roughly ; it is good against 

 dropsies and rheumatisms; and the jaundice has 

 been often cured by it singly. 



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Jack by the Hedge. Alliaria. 



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A SPRING plant of a conspicuous figure, freV 

 quent in our hedges. The stalk is rounds, thick^ 

 firni;, upright, and of a pale green, three feet m 

 height, and very straight. The leaves are large, 

 troad, and short, of a figure approaching to 

 roundish, but somewhat pointed at the ends, and 

 notched at the edges ; thej are of a p:ile yellowish 

 green colour, and stand on long foot stalks. The 

 flowers are little and white ; they stand ten or 

 a dozen together, at the tops of the branches, and* 

 are followed ^y long pods. 



The fresh leaves eaten as salad work by urine 

 powerfully, and are recommended in dropsies. The 

 juice of them boiled into a syrup with honey, is 

 good to break tough phlegm, and to cure coughs 

 and hoarsenesses. 



The Jacinth^ or Hyacinth. Hi/acinthus vuh 



garis 



THE common spring plant our children gather 

 with their cowslips and Alay flowers, and call blue 



