300 FAMILY HERBAL 



those of fennel, info slender and small 'parts, but 

 they are thick and fleshy. The stalk is round, hol- 

 low, striated, and a little branched The flowers 

 are small and yellow, and they stand at the tops of 

 the stalks in great clusters or umbels, in the maimer 

 of those of fennel. The whole plant has a warm 

 and agreeable taste, and a good sniell. 



The leaves are iised fresh ; but those which grow 

 immediately from the root, where there is no stalk, 

 are best: they are pickled, and brought to our 

 tables ; but they are often adulterated, and other 

 ihings pickled in their place. The juice of 

 fresh leaves operates very powerfully by urine, 

 is good against the gravel and stone, against sup 

 pressions of the menses, and the jaundice. 



and 



Sanicle. Saniciila 



5^ 



A PRETTY 



our woods. 



and distinguished by its regular leaves^ and small 

 umbels of flowers. It grows a foot and a half 



high. The 



and they all rise 

 they stand on long f 



stalks, and are very conspicuous: they are of a 

 roundish shape, but cut in so, as to appear five 

 cornered, serrated about the edges, and of a very 

 deep glossy green colour, and shining surface. The 

 italk is striated, upright, naked : on its top grows 

 a little round cluster of flowers : thev are small and 



white, and each is succeeded by two little rougb 

 seeds. The root is fibrous. 



leaves are used. A strong d 



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the bleeding of the piles. It has been vastly 



tielebratcd for the cure of ruptures, but that is 

 idle. 



