184 FAMILY HERBAL. 



The White Stock July Flover. Leucoium 



album. 



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A ROBUST garden plants kept for its flowers, 

 which art variegates and makes double- It grows 

 two or three feet high. The stalk is thicks, firm^ 

 roundj and of a greyish colour* The leaves are 

 longj narrow^ hairy^ and whitish. The stalks wliicli 



bear the flowers, are alsffof a whitish green^ aud 

 tender. The flowers are as broad as a shilling, 

 white,] and sweet scented. 



The flowers are the part used:, and they are to 

 he fresh gathered^, and only just blown. A tea 

 made of ihem^ is good to promote the menses^ and 

 it operates also bv urine. An ointment is to be 

 jnade^ by boiling them inhog*s lard^ which is ex- 

 cellent for sore nipples. 



The Juniper Shrub. Junipcrus. 



The brHJH^Ijes are 



A COMMON shrub on our heaths. It grow^ 



to no great height in England., but in some other 

 parts of Europe^ rises to a considerably large tree. 

 The bark is of a reddish brown. 

 tough. The leaves are longish, very narrow^ and 

 prickly at the ends. The flowers are of a yellow- 

 ish colour, but small and inconsiderable. The 

 berries are large, and when ripe blackish : thev are 

 cf a strong, but not disagreeable smelly and of a 

 sweetish, but resinous taste. The leaves are of a 

 faint bluish green colour. 



The berriea are the pf^rt most used. We have 

 them from Germany principally. They have two 

 excellent qualities, they dispel wind, and work by 

 urine, for which reason, they are excellent in those 

 coiics which arise from the gravel and sfone. 

 W ith these is also made the true Geneva, but the 



