194 FAMILY HEUBAL 



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cellent for sweetening juleps and drinks in fevers^ an^ 

 mixed with salt of wormwood^ it stops Yomitings. 



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Leadwort. Dentillaria sire plumbago. 



A LITTLE plant, native of some parts of Eu- 

 rope^ and kept in our gardens. It is two feet higb^ 

 the stalks are slender, tough, and weak, hardly 

 able to support themselves upright. The leaves 

 are of a pale bluish green colour, oblong, not very 

 broad, and thev surround the stalk at the base. 

 The flowers arc red, they are singly, very small, but 

 they statjd in thick, oblong clusters, on the tops of 

 the stalks, and each is succeeded by a single seed 

 which is very rough, and stands naked. 



The dried root is to be used; a piece of it put 

 jnto the mouth, fill it with a great quantity of 

 rheum, aud is often an almost instantaneous cure 

 for the head-ach. It also cures the tooth- ach in 

 the same manner as pellitory of Spain does : it ii 

 more hot and acrid, than even that fiery root. 



The Indian Leaf Tree. MQlahcdlirinn. 



A TALL and beautiful tree 6f the East Indies, 



not unlike the cinnamon tree in its manner of 



growth. The trunk is as thick as our elms, and it 



grows as tail, but the branches are disposed with 



less regu?arit^; the wood is brittle, aud the joung 



shoots are of a pale brown. The leaves are very 



large, nine inches long, and seven in breadth, and 



not at all indented. The flowers stand in clusters, 



on the tops of the branches : thev are small and 



greyish : and the fruit is of the highness of our red 



currant. It is common in the mountainous parts 

 of the cast. . 



