314 FAMILY HERBAL, 



little plum, of a very austere taste when unripe^ but 

 pleasant when mellow. 



The juice expressed from unripe sloes, is a verj 

 good remedy for fluxes of the belly. It may be 

 boiled down to a firm consistence, and will so keep 

 the whole year. We used to find this dried juice 

 kept by druggists under the name of German acacia, 



but they neglect it. 



Smallage. jipium. 



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A COMMON wild plant, about ditch sides, 

 with the appearance of lelery. These are very 

 numerous and large. The stalk rises two feet and 

 a half in height, and is round, smooth, striated, and 

 branched. The leaves on it are like those from the 

 root, composed of many small parts, which are 

 broad and indented, but thev are smaller. The 

 flowers stand in little umbels at the divisions of the 

 branches : they are small and of a yellowish white; 

 The seeds are small and striated. The roots are 



ng, not very thick, white, and of a strong, but not 



sagreeable taste. 



The roots are most used ; a strong infusion of 

 lueni fresh gathered, works briskly by urine* It is 

 good against the gravel, and in jaundices and other 

 diseases arising from obstructions in the liver and 

 «pleen. The seeds dried are good against the colic, 

 and strengthen the stomach. 



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The CoLURiNE-wooD, OR Snake-wood Tree. 



Lignum colubrinum. 



A. TALL' tree of the East, irregular io its gro\^ th, 

 but not without beauty. The bark is rough ai d 

 bruwn ; the leaves are large, broad in the midule. 



