48 FAMILY HERBAL. 



from the root ; and in the heads like other plan- 

 tains, although so very unlike them in its leaves. 

 The root is long- and slender: the leaves which 

 lie thus flat upon the ground, are narrow and 

 long, very beautifully notched, and divided so as 

 to resemble a buck's horn, whence the name, and 

 of a pale whitish green, and a little hairy. The 

 stalks are slender, six inches long, but seldom 

 quite erect : they are round, hairy, and whitish, 

 and have at the top a spike of flowers of an inch 

 or two in length, altogether like that of the other 

 plantains, only more slender. 



This plant has obtained the name of star of 

 the earth, from the way of the leaves spreading 

 themselves. These leaves bruised, and applied 

 to a fresh wound, stop the bleeding and effect 

 a cure. It is said also to be a remedy against 

 the bite of a mad dog, but this is idle and ground* 

 less. 



"Bugle. Bugula. 



A COMMON wild plant and a very pretty 

 one, with flossy leave?, creeping stalks, and blue 

 flowers ; it is frequent in damp woods. The. 

 stalks, wV.en they rise up to bear the flowers, are 

 eight or ten inches high, square, of a pale green 

 colour, often a little purplish ; and have two leaves 

 at every joint, the joints being somewhat distant. 

 These leaves are of the same form with those 

 which rise immediately from the root ; oblong, 

 broad, blunt at the point, and of a deep green 

 colour, sometimes also a little purplish, and are 

 slightly indented round the edges. The flowers 

 are small and of a beautiful blue, in shape like 

 tho^e of betony ; thev grow in a sort of circles 

 round the upper pint of the stalks, forming a kind. 



