174 ^^ Ufeful Family HeriaL 





Hart WORT. 

 SESELI. 



TalJ, robufl:, and handfome Plant, Native of th^ 

 Alps, but kept in our Gardens. It grows 

 five or fix Feet in Height : The Stalk is round, 

 thick, ftriated, and hollow, very firm and up- 

 right, and but little branched. The Leaves are 

 very large, and- they are divided into a great 

 Number of Parts, by fives and by threes, they are 

 of a yellowifli Green. The Flowers are fmall and 

 white, but they fland in great Tufts or Umbels 

 at the Tops of the Stalks, the Seeds follow, two 

 after each Flower, and they are oblong, broad, 

 and edged with a leafy Border, they are of a 

 dark Colour, . a firong Smell, and acrid Tafte. 



The Seeds are the only Part ufed, they pro- 

 mote the Menfes, and the necefiary Difcharges 

 after Delivery ; and are an excellent warm and 

 cordial Medicine, they work alfo gently by Urine, 

 and cure choiicky Pains, they are to be given in 

 Powder or Infufion. 



Hawthorn. 

 SPINA ALBA. 



Shrub too common in our Hedges to need 



much Defcription. The Trunk is irreg 

 feldom ftrait, the Branches are ft 



and the 



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v----«wnitijij viiviui^u. X lie riower 

 beautiful, the Fruit is fmall. 



The Flowers and the dried Fruit arc ufed in Me 

 dicme ; they have the fame Virtue, they work b^ 

 Unne, and are good in the Gravel, and all Com' 

 plaints cf that kind : But there nr^ 



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