G2 FAMILY HERBAL. 



so much regarded for their virtues as they ought 

 to be ; th-ere are on the contrary some which are 

 celebrated more than they deserve : the carline 

 thistle is of this last number. It is not wholly 

 without virtues, but it has not all that are ascribed 

 to it. 



This is a plant without any stalk. The leaves 

 are long, narrow, of a dark green colour, divided 

 and prickly at the edge? ; and they lie spread upon 

 the ground in manner of a star. The flower 

 appears in the midst f these without a stalk, rising 

 immediately from t he root, with several small 

 leaves round aboul it. I( is the head of a thistle, 

 and the flowery part is white on the edge, and yel- 

 low in the middle The root is loi g\ and of a brown 

 colour on the ont-ide, and reddish within ; it is of a 

 warm aromatic taste. 



This is the only part of the plant used in medi- 

 cine. They say il is a remedy for the plague : but 

 however thai may he, it is good In nervous com- 

 plaints, and in stoppages of the menses, 



The Caraway Plaxt. Cunnn. 



A WILD plant of the umbelliferous kind, frc^ 

 qucnt in most purls of Europe, but cultivated ita 

 Germany for the sake of the seed. I have met with 

 it very common in fa icohishire. 



It grows to a vard ln<v;h ; the stalks are striated 

 and firm; the leaves are frneiv divided, and the 

 flower.- are white and small, thev srrov* in tuffs, or 

 umbel", on the tops of the branches ; the seeds that 

 follow them are \cv\ well known. 



Ties"eds are excellent in the rolir. and in disor- 

 der .; of the rtomach, thev are best chewed. 



