312 FAMILY HERBAL. . 



tlicy have been exposed *^o the sun^ where they ajf« 

 sometimes reddish ; the taste is very pleasant when 

 they are ripe. 



The unripe fruit is used; they press the juice^ 

 and give it against purgings, but it is little knowD. 



The Common ServiceTree. Sorbus vulgaris. 



A LARGE tree and very beautiful^ its growth 

 being regular, and the leaves of an elegant shape ; 

 the bark of the trunk is greyish, and tolerably 

 smooth ; on the branches it is brown : the leaves are 

 single, large, and of a rounded figure, hut divided 

 into five, six, or seven parts, pretty deeply_, and 

 cerrated round the edges ; they are of a bright green 

 on the upper part, ,and whitish underneath. The 

 flowers arc little and yellowish, and they grow in 

 clusters ; the fruit is small and brown when ripe. 

 It grows in bunches. 



The unripe fruit of this service is excellent 

 against purglngs, but it can only be had recourse to 

 when in season, for there is no way of preservings 

 the virtue in them all the year. 



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SHEPHERD<i* Purse. Bursa pastoris. 



THE most comraoa almost of all wild plants^ 

 ever-running our garden-beds^ and court-yards. 

 The leaves spread upon the ground, and arc long, 

 somewhat broad, and more or less indented at the 

 edges, for in this there is great variation : the stalkg 

 are round, upright, and eight or ten inches high, 

 they have few leaves on them. The flowers stand 

 at the tops in little clusters, and they are small and 

 white : beU^w there is commonly a kind of spik? 

 of tlie seed-vessels ; these are shorty broad, asid of 



