b\j FAMILY HERBAL. 



the stalks in a double series : they are not unlike 

 those of our grasses, chaffy and ornamented with 

 a few filaments. 



It was at one time in great esteem as a medi- 

 cine ; they called it a cordial, and a promoter of 

 the menses,, but it is now very little regarded. 



Chamomile. Chamccmclum. 



A COMMON low wild plant, of a beautiful 

 preen, a fragrant smell, and with flowers not un- 

 like daisies. It is frequent on damp heaths, andgets 

 no good by being brought into gardens. It grows 

 iargcr there, but has less eiHcacy. In its wild state 

 it spreads its branches upon the ground, taking root 

 at the joints. The stalks are round, green, and 

 thick ; the leaves are very finely divided, and of a 

 dark blackish green colour. The flowers grow 

 upon long foot-sfalks, and are white at the edge 

 and yellow in the middle : the flowers are moat 

 used. Those which are raised for sale arc double, 

 and they have verv little virtue in comparison of 

 the single ones. They are to betaken in tea, which 

 is a pleasant bitter ; or in powder they are excellent 

 for disorders of the stomaeh, and have sometimes 

 cured agues, as many other bitters will. The tea 

 made of them is also good against the colic, anu 

 works bv urine. 



The Camphire-Tkke. Arbor camphor if era. 



TUTS is a kind of hay-tree of ihc East Indies. 

 hut it grows to the height of our tallest frees. The 

 bark is brown and uneven on the trunk, but it is 

 smooth and green on the young branches. The 

 leaves are like those of the common hav-tree, only 

 a little longer ; and they are curled at the edgc&. 



