FAMILY HERBAL. 55 



Calvt.s' Skoit or Snapdragon. Antirrhinum. 



A COMMON wild plant in many parts of 

 Europe, and is very frequent in our gardens, and 

 upon thou alls of gardens : Its natural situation 

 is on hills among barren rocks, and nothing 

 conies so near that, as the top of an old wall 

 with us : the seeds are light and are easilv car- 

 ried thither by the wind, and they never fail to 

 strike, and the plant flourishes. It is two i"ect 

 high, the stalks arc round, thick, firm, end to- 

 lerably upright, but generally a little bent towards 

 the bottom ; the leaves are very numerous ; 

 thev are oblong, narrow, not indented at the edges, 

 blunt at the ends, and of a bluish green colour. 

 The flowers are large and red, they stand in a kind 

 of loose spikes upon the tops of the stalks ; the root 

 is white and oblong. 



The fresh tops arc used; an infusion of them 

 works bv urine, and has been recommended by 

 some in the jaundice, and in other diseases arising 

 from obstructions of the viscera ; but we haye 

 so many English plants that excel in this particu- 

 lar, and the taste of the infusion is so far from 

 agreeable, that it is not worth while to have recourse 

 to It. 



Camel's hay. Schcnanlhus. 



A SORT of grass of a fragrant smell, frequent 

 in manv parts of the East, and brought over 

 to us dried for the use of medicine. ^Jt grows to 

 a foot high, and in all respects resembles some of 

 our common kinds of grass, particularly the dar- 

 nel. The leaves are long and narrow : the 

 stalks are round and jointed, and have grassy leases 

 ifclso on them, and the flowers stand on the tops of 



