i72t FAMILY HERBAL. 



PoLYroDY. Poll/podium. 



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A SMALL plant of the fern kind. It is a fool 

 liighj and consists only of a single leaf. Several of 

 these commonly rise from the same root, but each 

 18 a separate and entire plant. The stalk is naked 

 for five inches, and from thence to the top stand on 

 each Tside, a row of small, oblong, and narrow 

 segments, resembling so many small leaves, with 

 an odd one at the end. The whole plant is of a 

 bright green colour, but the backs of these divisions 

 of the leaf, are at a certain season, toward autumn, 

 ornamented with a great number of round brown 

 spots, these are the seeds : those of all ferns are 

 carried in the same manner. The root is long, 

 slender, and creeps upon the surfaceof old stumps 

 of trees among the moss. The root is used, and it 

 is best fresh ; it is a safe and gentle purge J the best 

 way of giving it is in decoction, in which form it 

 always operates also by urine. It is good in the 

 jaundice and dropsies, and is an excellent ingredient 

 in diet-drinks against the Scurvy ; but beside these 

 considerations, it is a safe and good purge, on all 

 common occasions. 



The PoMEGRiiNATE Tree. Grauatus. 



A COMMON wild tree in Spain and Italy, 

 kept with us in gardens. It grows to the bigness 

 of our apple-trees. The branches spread irregu- 

 larly; they have a, reddish brown bark, and have 

 here and there a few thorns. The leaVes are nu- 

 merous ; on the extremities of the branches they 

 arc small, oblong, narrow, and of a fine green. 

 The flowers are large, and of a beautiful deep red: 

 the fruit is as big as a large apple, and has a brown 

 Woody covering ; it contains within a great c^uao- 



