The Ufeftil Family Herbal. 



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The Flowers are greenifh and hollow. The Fruit 

 is a large and round Berry, black, and of a fome* 

 what difagreeable Tafte, groWihg in the manner of 



the Currants. 



The Juice of Black Currants boiled 'up A^itK 

 Sugar to a Jelly, is an excellent Remedy againft: 



Tore Throats. 



-- Lo N G C Y P E R U S. 



CYPEHUS LONGUS. V 



Wild Plant in our Marfhes, Fens, and other 

 damp Places^ It is a Foot and a half high. 

 The Leaves are a Foot long or more, narrow, 

 grafly, and of a bright green Colour, flat and 

 Iharp at the ends. The Stalk is triangular and 

 green ; there are no Leaves on it, except two or 

 three fmall ones at the Top, from which there 

 rifcs a Number of fmall Tufts or Spikes of 

 Flowers. Thefe are brown, light, chafFy, and 

 in all refpeds like thofe of the other Water 

 Grafles. 



The Root is ufed. It is long and brown, ancJ 

 when dried, is of a pleafant Smell, and aromatic 

 warm Tafle. It Ihould be taken up in Spring. It 

 is good agakift Pains in the Head, and it pro* 

 tnotes Urine.' 



I 



Round Cyperus. 

 CYPERUS ROTUNDUS. 



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Plant in iiiany refpefls refemblihgthe other:^ 

 but a Native of the warmer Countries. It 

 grows two Foot high. The Leaves arc Very 

 numerous, a Foot and a half long, narrow, of a 

 paTe green Colour, fharp at the Point, and ribbed 

 all along like thofe of Grafs. The Stalk is triarl- 

 gular, and the Edges are Iharp j it is firm, ijp- 

 : - 1 right. 



