Its family herbal. 



great ornament to them. It does not well suppori 

 itself, so that it is commonly nailed against walls. 

 The trunk is covered with a grejish bark: the 

 young shoots are green. The leaves stand tw o at 

 each joints and they are very beautiful ; each is 

 made up of about three pair of narrows-oblong, and 

 pointed leaves^ with a very long one at the end* 

 They are of a deep green colour : the flowers are 

 long, hollow J open at the end^ and white; half a 

 dozen or thereabout, grow on each stalk, and they 

 are of a very delicate and fragrant smell ; these 

 are succeeded by berries. Which ripen in the warmer 



countries. 



The flowers are the part used. Pour a pint of 

 boiling water upon six ounces of the fresh gathered 

 and clean picked flowers of jessamin ; let it stand 

 twelve hours, then pour it oft*; add honey enough to 

 make the liquor into a thin syrup, and it is an excel- 

 lent medicine in coughs. 



Rose of Jericho, Rosa Hicraconiea. 



A LITTLE woody plant, named a rose from 

 nothing but its size, and Hi manner of folding 

 itself up, by bending in the tops of the branches, 

 io that it appears hollow and roundish. We are 

 accustomed to see it dry, and in that condition it is 

 always thus drawn together. It is of the bign 



woody 



fist, and is composed of a quantity of 



one another, and 

 all bending inward. When it is put into warm 

 water, it expands, and become flattish, but on dry- 

 ings it acquires the old form again. 



It is in reality, a kind of thlaspi^, or treacle mus* 

 tard, but of a peculiar woody texture The root 

 w long, and pierces deep into the ground ; there 



Z^oif from this eight or ten stalks, which spread 



