72^ Ufeful Family Herbal 5 5 



Leaves upon them. On the Top of each (lands 

 a Spike of Flowers, of a pale reddifli Colour •, 

 the whole does not rife to more than eight Inches 

 in Height. Thefe appear in A'larch. When they 

 are dead, the Leaves gtojv up ; thefe are roundifh, 

 green on the upper Side,' and whitifh underneath, 

 of a vaft Bignefs, and ftand fingly upon hollowed 

 Foot-Stalks, of a purplifh, whitifh, or greenifli Co- 

 lour; they are often two Feet broad. The Root 

 is white and long, it creeps under the Surface of 



the Ground. 



The Root is the Part ufed -, it is praifed yci7 

 highly, as "a Remedy in peftilential Fevers; "but, 

 whether it defence that Praife or not, it is a good 

 Diuretick, and excellent in the Gravel. 



BuR-REED. 



SPARGANIUM. 



A Common Water Plant, with Leaves likeFJags, 

 and roush Heads of Seeds : It is two or three 

 Feet high. The Stalks are round, green, thick, 

 and upright. The Leaves are very long and nar- 

 row, Iharp at the Edges, and with a fliarp Ridge 

 on the Back along the Middle : They arc of a 

 pale Green, and look frefli and beautiful. The 

 Flowers are inconfiderable and yellowifh : They 

 Hand in a kind of circular Tufts about the upper 

 Parts of the Stalk : Lower down ftand the rough 

 Fruits called Burs, from whence the Plant ob- 

 tained its Name; they are of the Bignefs of a large 

 Nutmeg, green and rou^h. The Root is com- 

 pofed of a Qviantity of white Fibres. 



The unripe Fruit is ufed; they are aHirin^ent, 

 and good againfc Fluxes of the Eclly, and Bleed- 

 ings of all kinds : The befl W^ay of giving them 



nfufed in a rough red W'ine, Vvith -• '^ 



namon. They ufe them in fome Pares of England 



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