5 o The Ufeful Family HerbaL 



Buckthorn. 



SPINA CERVINA. 



A Prickly Shrub common in our Hedges, with 

 pale green Leaves, and black Berries. It 

 grows to eight or ten Feet high. The Bark is 

 dark-coloured and gloiTy, and the Twigs are tough. 

 The Leaves are oval, of a very regular and pretty 

 Figure, and elegantly dented round the Edges. 

 The Flowers arc little, and inconfiderable \ they 

 are of a grecnifh Yellow, and grow iii little 

 Clufters. The Berries which are ripe in Septem- 

 ber, are round, glofly, black, as big as the largeft 

 Pepper-Corns, and contain each three or four 

 Seeds. 



The Juice of the Berries, boiled up with Sugar, 

 makes a good Purge ; but it is apt to gripe, un- 



lefs fome Spice be added in the making : It 

 rough Purge, but a very good 



BucKSHORN Plantain. 



CORONOPUS. 



^ Very pretty little Plant which grows In our 

 •^ ■ fandy and barren Places, with the Leaves 

 fpread out in Manner of a Star, all the Way round 

 from the Root-, and in the Heads like other Plan- 

 tains, although fo very unlike them in its Leaves. 

 The Root is long and flender : The Leaves which 

 lie thus flat upon the Ground, are narrow and 

 long, very beautifully notched and divided fo as 

 to refemble a Buck's Horn, whence the Name, 

 and of a pale whitifh Green, and a little hairy. 

 The Stalks are flender, fix Inches long, but fel- 

 dom quite ere6t : They are round, hairy, and whi- 

 tifh, and have at the Top a Spike of Flowers of an 



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