7Z^ Ufeful Family Herbal, 329 



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Meadow Saxifrage. 

 SESELI PRATENSE. 



Wild Plant alfo, but though known by t 

 fame Englijh Name with the other, -v^ery d 



ferent in Form and Flower. It 

 than two Feet in Height. The Stalks are round, 

 deeply ftriated, of a dark green Colour, and coo- 

 fiderably branched. The Leaves are large, but 

 they are divided into a Multitude of fine narrow 

 Segments. The Flowers ftand at tlie Tops of the 

 Stalks in little Umbels or round Clufters, and 

 they are fmall and yellow. The Root is brown, 

 long, andilender, and is pf an aromatic and acrid 

 Tafte. 



The Root is ufed : It is belt frefh taken up. 

 Given in a ftrong Infufion, it works powerfully 

 by Urine, and brings away Gravel. It alfo eafes 

 thofe Cholics, which are owing to the fame 



Caufe. 



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Scabious. 

 S C A B I O S A. 



Common wild Plant in our Corn-fields, dl- 

 ftinguiHied by its tall round Stalks, and round 

 blue Flowers. It grows to three Feet in Height; 

 The Leaves rife principally from the Root, and 

 they lie fpread upon the Ground. They are ob- 

 Jong, and irregularly divided at the Edges -, they 

 are of a pale Green, hairy, and rough to the Touch. 

 The Stalks are round, upright, hairy, of the fam 

 pale green Colour, and they have a few Leaves 

 on them, placed two at a Joint ; thefe are more 

 deeply divided, than thofe on the Ground. 1 he 



Flowers ftand at the Tops of the 



nches 



of a deep blue Colour, and each is compole^d 



