•7^^ Ufeful Fa7ntly HerhcJ, 3 5 



nervous Complaints; it will not take Place againfi: 

 a violent prefent Difordcr ; but' is an excellent 

 Prefervative, taken cautioufly. 



A 



Red BeheJj. 



r 



LIMONIUM MAJUS. 



Common wild Plant about our Sea-Coaftsj 

 and a very pretty one. It grows to a Foot 

 in Height ; the Stalks are naked, and the Flow- 

 ers red i and, in their Difpofition, they fornewhat 

 refemble Lavender, whence the Plant is alfo 

 called by fome Sea Lavender. About the Bot- 

 toms of the Stalks ftand Clufters of large and 

 broad Leaves, rounded at the Ends, of a deep 

 green Colour and fattilh Subftance ; tiiefe rife im- 

 mediately from the Root, and the Stalks grow 

 up among them. The Stalks are very tough and 

 ftrong, and branched, and of a paler Green ; the 



Root is long and reddifh. 



The People in EJfex cure themfelves of Purg- 



ings, and of Overflowings of the Menfes, with an 

 Infufion of this Root ; and it is a very great Me- 

 dicine, though little known. It is to be gathered, 

 as foon as the young Leaves appear, cleaned and 

 dried •, it may be taten in Powder half a Drachm 

 for a Dofe. Thefe are not the white and red Behen 

 Roots of the old Writers on Phyfick, but they 

 are better. 



The Ben Nut-Tree. 



B ALAN US MYREPSICA. 



'TpHIS is an y^r/z^/^« Tree, not very large, but 

 -*■ exceedingly fmgular in the Nature of ics 

 Leaves. They are compofed of a great Number 

 of IJmall roundifh Parts, growing at the Extre- 

 mities of flrong branched Foot-Stalks. The 



D 2 Leaves 



