FAMILY HERBAL. 5? 



The Cowers are small and white, and the fruit is 

 a berry, altogether like our bay-berries, and of the 

 bigness of a ia<-ge pea. The wood of the tree is 

 white or a little reddish, and veined with black, 

 and smells of the eamphire. The leaves also, when 

 thev are bruised, smell of eamphire; and the fruit 

 most of all. 



The only product of this tree, used in medicine, 

 is the ressn called eamphire ; and this is not a natu- 

 ral, but a sort of chemical preparation. They cut 

 the wood to pieces and put it into a sort of subli- 

 ming vessel with an earthen head full of straw. 

 They make fire underneath, and the eamphire rises 

 in form of a white meal, and is found among the 

 straw. This is refined afterwards, and becomes 

 the eamphire we use. 



[t is sudorific and works by urine ; it also pro- 

 motes the menses, and is good in disorders of the 

 bladder. 



White Campion. Lychnis flore albo. 



A COMMON wild plant in our hedges and dry 

 pastures, with hairy leaves, and while flowers. It 

 grows to a foot and a half high : the stalks are round 

 ^ani hairy ; the leaves are of an oval form, and also 

 ^hairy ; and they grow two at every joint : they are 

 ofaduskv green, and are not indented about the 

 edges. The flowers are moderately large, and 

 white ; they grow in a kind of small clusters on 

 the tops of the branches, and each has its separate 

 foot-stalk. 



This is a plant not much regarded for its virtues, 

 but it deserves notice ; the country people gather 

 the flowers in some places, and give them in the 

 whites and other weaknesses with success, 



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