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5 4 TI:>e Ufeful Family Herbal. 



and of a pale reddifh Colour, and have a Num- 

 ber of Threads in the Middle. 



Burnet is called a Cordial, and a Sudorific, and 

 is recommended in Fevers, They put it alfo 

 into cool Tankards like Borrage. The Root is a 

 good Afbringent -, dried and powdered, it flops 

 Fluxes, and Overflowings of the Men^^s. ■ 



Burnet Saxifrage. 



PIMPINELLA SAXIFRAGA. 



A Pretty Plant, wild in our dry Failures, and 

 ^^ under Hedges, but not very common in all 

 Parts of the Kingdom ; it grows two Feet high, 

 and has the Flowers in Umbels. The Stalk 

 is firm, flriatcd, and branched ; the Leaves rifing 

 from the Root are pinnated, and the lefTer Leaves 

 of which they are compofed, are hard, of a deep 

 Green, narrow and indented. The Leaves upon 

 the Stalks are fmaller and narrower ; the Flov/ers 

 are little and white, but they fland in fo large Cluf- 

 ters, that they make a Figure : The Root is 

 white, and of a hot burning Tafle; the Seeds §re 



ilriated. 



The Root is the only Part ufed ; it fhould be 

 taken up in Spring before the Stalks fhoot up, and 

 dried ; It is very good in Cholicks, and Diforders 



of the Stomach, and it works by Urine, 



But ter-B u r. 



PETASITES. 



A Very fingular and very confpicuous Plant* 

 -^^ not unfrequent with us in wet Places. The 

 Flowers appear before the Leaves, and they would 

 hardly be fuppofed to belong to the fame Plant. 

 The Stalks are round, thick, fpungy, and of awhi«- 



tilh Colour, and hsive a few Fiims by Way cf 



Leaves 



