FAMILY HERBAL, 3d 



a violent present disorder ; but is an excellent pre- 

 servative, taken cautiously. 



Red Behen. Limonium majus. 



A COMMON" wild plant about our sea-coasta, 

 and a very pretty one. It grows to a foot 

 in height; the stalks arc naked, and the flow- 

 ers red ; and, in their disposition, they somewhat 

 resemble lavender, whence the plant is also called 

 by sjme sea lavender. About the bottoms of 

 the stalks stand clusters of large and broad 

 leaves, rounded at the ends, of a deep green 

 colour and fattish substance ; these rise imme- 

 diately from the root, and the stalks grow up 

 among them. The stalks are very tough and strong, 

 and branched, and of a paler green : the root is long 

 and reddish. 



The people in Essex cure themselves of purg- 

 ings, and of overflowings of the menses, with an 

 infusion of this root ; and it is a very great me- 

 dicine, though little known. It is to be gathered, 

 as soon as the youg leaves appear, cleaned and 

 dried ; it may be taken in powder half a drachm 

 for a dose. These are not the white and red behen 

 roofs of the oid writers on physick, but they are 

 better. 



The Ben-Nut-tree. Balanus myrepsica. 



THIS is an Arabian tree, not very large, but 

 exceedingly singular in the nature of its leaves. 

 They are composed of a great number of small 

 roundish parts, growing at the extremities ctf 

 strong branched foot-stalks. The leaves fall 

 first, and these foot-stalks long after. When 

 the leaves are fallen, and the stalks remain, 



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