FAMILY HERBAL. §05 



gent and balsamic. The young leaves bound about 

 ^ fresh wound, stop the bleeding*^ and perform » 



short 



LovAGE. Zevisticnm. 



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A TALL plant of the umbelliferous kind, kept 

 in our gardens for its use in medicine. The stalk 

 is round, thick, hollow, and deeply striated or 

 channelled. The leaves are Very large, and they are 

 each composed of a number of smaller; these are 

 set on a' divided stalk, and are short, broad, and in- 

 dented at the edges. The flowers are small and 

 yellow, the seed is striated, the root is brown, thick^ 

 and divided, and the fibres from it are numerous; 

 it is of a hot aromatic taste. 



The roots fresh dug work by urine, and are good 

 against the jaundice. The seeds have the same 



effect also and they dispel wind. The dried root 

 i& a sudorific, and is good in fevers. 



Tree Lungwort. Muscus pulmonarius. 



A BROAD and large kind of moss, in form some- 

 what resembling the green and grey liverwort, but 

 bigger than either. It grows on the barks of old 

 oaks, and beech trees, but is not common. It is 

 principally found in large woods. Each leaf, or 

 separate plants is eight or ten inches long, and near- 

 ly ac much in breadth, of a yellowish colour, and 

 of a substance resembling leather: it is divided 

 deeply at the edges, and is rough, and full of higfi 

 veins on the surface. At the season of flowcrir.g 

 there also appear certain small red heads, whiclu 

 contain the seeds for a new succession of plants. 



This plant is not so much known as it deserves to 

 |»e. It is an excellent astringent, a str(mg decoction 



