12 FAMILY HERBAL. 



and a half of sugar. They may also be dried. They 

 are excellent in the whites, and all other weak- 

 nesses. 



There is a little plant with red flowers called 

 also the red archangel, or red dead-nettle. It is 

 common under the hedges, and in gardens ; the 

 stalks are square and weak, the leaves are short and 

 notched at the edges, and the flowers small and 

 red ; the plant is not above four or live inches high, 

 and these flowers grow near the tops among the 

 leaves. They are in shape like those of the white 

 archangel, but small. 



The herb is used fresh or dried, and the flowers. 

 The decoction is good for fioodings, bleedings at 

 the nose, spitting of blood, or any kind of hemor- 

 rhage. It also stops blood, bruised and applied out- 

 wardly. 



Arrach, or Stinking Arrach. Atriplex olida. 



A small wild plant that grows about farm-yards, 

 and in waste grounds. The stalks arc a foot long, 

 but weak ; they seldom stand upright ; they are 

 striated, and of a pale green. The leaves are 

 small, short, and rounded, of a bluish green colour, 

 and of the breadth of a shilling or less. The 

 flowers are inconsiderable, and the seeds small, but 

 they stand in clusters at the tops of the branches, 

 and have a greenish white appearance. The whole 

 plant is covered with a sort of moist dust in large 

 particles, and has a most unpleasant smell. It is 

 T o be used fresh gathered, for it loses its virtue 

 in drying. A syrup may be made of a pint of 

 its juice and two pound? of sugar, and will keep all 

 the year. The leaves also may be beat into a con- 

 serve, with three times their weight of sugar. In 

 any of these forms it is an excellent medicine in 



