FAMILY HERBAL. 03 



Wild Carrot. Daucus sylzcslus. 



A COMMON plant about the hedges, and m 

 dry pastures. It grows near a yard high, and 

 has small flowers, and after them rough seeds dis- 

 posed in umbels, at tiie tops of the branches, those 

 are hollow, and thence called by the children birds' 

 nests. 



The stalks are striated and firm, the leaves, 

 are divided into fine and numerous partitions, and 

 are of a pale green and hairy ; the flowers are 

 white. 



The seed is the part used in medicine, and it 

 is a verv good diuretic ; it is excellent in all dis- 

 orders of the gravel and stone, and all obstruc- 

 ts -s of urine ; it is also good in stoppages of the 

 menses. 



Candy Carots. Daucus Cretcnsis. 



A PLANT frequent in the east, and cultivated 

 in some places for the seed. It grows near a yard 

 high ; the stalk is firm, upright, striated, and 

 branched : the leaves are like those of fennel, 

 onlvmore finely divided, and of a whitish colour; 

 the" flowers are white, and the seeds are oblong, 

 thick in the middle, and downy. 



These seeds are the only part used : They are 

 good in colics, and they work by urine, but 

 those of our own wild plant are nrore strongly di- 

 uretic. 



The Cascarilla Tree. Cascarilla. 



A TREE of SouthAmerica, of the fruits and 

 flowers of which we have but very impeifcct 



