80S FAMILY HERBAL. 



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stalks are eight or fen inches high ; they are ten- 

 der^ roundj and striated ; they have few leaves 

 on them, hut the flowers are small and white> and 

 stand in clusters at the tops of the stalks^ as in 

 4he other. The leaves are to housed fresh gather- 

 ed^ or their juice is to be taken. Their virtues 

 are the same as those ^ the other. But it is the 

 general opinion that thev^are greater, though the 

 taste be not so agreeable. 



The Sebesten Tree^ Nyxa sive sebesten. 



A TREE of the bigness and form of our com* 

 jnon plum tree, and producing a fruit not altogether 

 .unlike it. The trunk is covered with a rough 

 hark, the branches grow irregularly and crooked, 

 and are generally so slender toward the *ends, and 

 so full of leaves that they bend downward ; the 

 leaves are broad and short ; the flowers are white, 

 small, and sweet scented ; they stand in tufts or 

 ^clusters^ and the cup in which they stand remains 

 and encloses the fruit. This is somewhat like 



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a plum, and has a kernel in the same manner : 

 its shape is oblong ; and the pulpjpartof it is so 

 tough and clammy, that being beat up with water, 

 it makes good birdlime. 



This fruit is the part used; it is sent over to 

 us dried in the manner of 9. prune. It used to be 

 a constant ingredient in decoctions for coughs, 

 and disorders of the lungs, but it is now dis- 

 regarded. 



Self-heal. FrundJa. 



A UTTLE wild plant common about way sidi 

 with dark green )eaTes, and short tufts of bl 



flowers. It growf six inches high; the stalk 



