902 FAMILY HERBAL. 



pome reserabhince of the smaller leaves of the fig^ 

 tree. The ilowers are small and yellow. The 

 fruit are berries like bay berries. The wood is 

 of a reddish colour and perfumed smell. 



The wood is used. Our druggists receive it in 

 }<yg% and cut it out into shavings. The wood of 

 the root is best, and its bark contains most virtue 

 ofalL It is best taken in infusion_, by way of tea, 

 for it is very pleasant : it promotes sweat, and 

 IB good against the scurvy, and all other foul- 

 nesses of the blood. It is a constant ingredient iu 

 diet drinks against the venereal disease. 



Savine, Sdbina 



A LITTLE garden shrub, green all the winter. 

 The trunk is covered with a reddish brown bark. 

 The branches are numerous, and stand confusedly. 

 The leaves are small, narrow, of a dark green 

 colour, and prickly- The flowers are very small, 

 and of a yellowish colour ; and the fruit is a 

 small berry, of a black colour when ripe, and cover- 

 ed with a bluish dust like the bloom of a plum. 



The tops of the young branches are used: they 

 are best fresh, and given in the manner of tea. 

 They very powerfully promote the menses ; and 

 if given to women with child, will frequently cause 

 a miscarriage. The country people give the juice 



milk to children, as a remedy against 

 generally works by stool, and brings 



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w orras away with it. 



Summer Savory. Saiureia liortensis. 



K COMMON little plant in our kifchen gardens. 

 It IS ten inches or afoot high. The stalks are nu- 

 merous, and very hard, and woodv toward th^ bot- 



