36% FAMILY HERBAL. 



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ly divided^ Ifke those of the true Roman worr» 



wood, and of a pale green on the upper side^ and 

 a silvery white below. The stalks are stiff, firra^ 



woodjj atid branched; they are of a whitish 

 colour, and have a loose downy skin upon them : 

 the flowers arc small and „ brownish ; they resem- 

 ble those of wormwood, and stand in a kind of 

 loose spikes at the tops of the stalks. 



The seeds are used : our druggists keep them ; 

 and very often the unripe buds of the flowers in 

 their place, are mixed with them. They are good 

 against worms in children ; the good women give 

 them mixed with treacle : and few raedickies 

 for this purpose have better efi'cct. For people 

 of nicer palates, they may be powdered, and made 

 into boluses 



Treacle Woumseed. Camelina. 



THIS IS not the plant which produces whai 

 the druggists sell under the name of wormseod ; 

 that is the produce of an Egyptian kind of 

 wormwood, just described. This is an English 

 herb of the podded kind, and very distinct in its 

 whole appearance from that> and all of its sort. 

 It is two feoi high. The stalks are round, up- 

 right, firm, and toward the top divided into 

 branches ; the leaves are very numerous, and 

 stand irregularly. They are lorigish, narrow, 

 pointed at the ends, not at all dented at the edges, 

 and of a dusky green colour. The flowers are 

 little and yellow ; they stand in small clusters at 

 tfee tops of the branches, and under thorn is a kind 

 *>f spike of pods ; these are long and slender, 

 frccn at first, but of a kind of brown colour when 



upe ; and in each is a great number of seeds ; 



