< 1 3 o The Ujeful Family Herhal. 



Root. When dried it may be given in Powder to 

 flop the Whites and Purgings, it is a gentle and 

 fafe Aftringent. 



There are feveral other Plants called in Englijh 

 Dropworts, which are very different in their Qua- 

 lities, and one of them is poifonous in a terrible 

 "Degree; this laft is called Hemlock Dropwortj 

 care muft therefore be taken that the right kind is 

 ufed, but this is fuPiciently different from all the 

 others. The Flower is compofed of fix little 

 Leaves, and is full of yellow Threads in the Mid- 

 dle ; the Flowers of all the others are compofed 

 only of five Leaves each. They are all umbelli- 

 ferous Plants, but this is not ; the Flowers grow 

 in Cluflers, but not in Umbels : They grow like 

 thofe of the Ulmaria or Meadow Sweet, 





Due K-W E E D. 



LENTICULA. 



/S^ Small green Herb, confifling of fingle, little 



roundifli Leaves, which float upon the Sur- 

 face of the Water, and fend their Roots into it 

 far Nourilhment, widiowt ftickiag them into the 

 Mud. It is the final! green Herb that covers al- 

 moii all our flanding Waters in Summer. There 

 are two other kinds of it, one with fmaller Leaves 

 and many Fibres from each, another with only 

 one Fibre from each Leaf: Both thefe are green 

 all over-, and a third kind with larger Leaves, 

 which are purple underneath, but all thefe have 

 the fame Virtue, and it is no Matter which is 

 taken. The Juice is to be given j and it is to be 

 continued for feveral Days. 



It works powerfully by Urine, and opens Ob- 

 flrudions of the Liver: Jaundices have been cured 

 \>j it fmgly. 



Dwarf 



