Tl^e Ufeful Family Herhah to 5 



Cranesbill. 

 GERANIUM ROBERTIANUM. 



Rranefbil is a little Herb very frequent under 

 Hedges, and in uncnltivated Places : there are 

 many lynds of it, but that which has moil Vir- 

 tue, is the kind called Herb Robert, this is, a, 

 pretty arid regularly growing Plant. The Stalks 

 are a Foot long, but they feldom Hand quite up- 

 right, they are round, branched, and jointed, and 

 are often red, as \% frequently the whole Pi^nt ;■ 

 The Leaves af^ large, and divided into a great- 

 Number of Parts, and they ftand upon long Foot- 

 Stalks, two at every Joint. The Flowers are 

 moderately large, and of a bright Red, they -are 

 very confpicuous and pretty^ the Fruit that .fol- 

 lows is long and Qender, and has fome Refemr 

 blance of the long Beak of a Bird, whence the 



Name. 



X^^ wKoIq PUnt is to be 'gathered Root and 

 all, and dried for Ufe ; it is a" mod excellent Af- 

 tringent: Scarce any Plant is equal to it. It 

 may be given dried and powdered, or in Decoc- 

 tion. It ft9ps Overflowings of the Menfes, bloody 

 Stools, and all other Bleedings. 

 * ' It is to be obferved that Nature feems to have 

 fet her Stamp upon feveral Herbs which have the 

 Virtue to flop Bleedings ; this and the Tufan. 

 The two bed Remedies the Fields afford for out- 

 J\vard and inward Bleedings, become ail over aR 



red as Blood at a certain Seafon. 



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