FAMILY HERBAL. 81 



The Clove Spice Tree. Caryophyllus aroma- 



ticus, 



A BEAUTIFUL tree, native' of the warm 

 countries ; it grows twenty or thirty feet high, 

 and very much branched. The bark is greyish; 

 the leaves are like those of the bay-tree, but twice 

 as large; they are of a bright shining- green, and 

 stand upon long foot-stalks ; the flowers are 

 not very large, but of a beautiful blue colour, 

 and the cups that contain them are oblong and 

 firm ; these are the cloves of the shops. They 

 gather them soon after the flowers are fallen]; 

 when they suffer them to remain longer on the 

 tree, they grow large, and swell into a fruit as big 

 as an oiive. 



The cloves are. excellent against disorders o 

 the head, and of the stomach ; they are warm, 

 cordial, and strengthening ; they expel wind,, 

 and are a good remedy for the colic. The oil of 

 cloves is made from these by chemists; it cures the 

 tooth ach ; a bit of lint beihg wetted, with it, and 

 laid to the tooth. 



Cockle. Pseudomelanthium. 



A TALL, upright, and beautiful plant, wild in 

 our corn-fields, with red flowers, and narrovv 

 leaves. It is two feet high : the stalk is single, 

 slender, round, hairy, very firm, and perfectly 

 upright. The leaves stand two at a joint, and 

 are not verv numerous : thev are Ion\ narrow, 

 hairy, and of a bright green colour: the flowers, 

 stand singly, one at the top of each bianch. The^y 

 are very large., and of a beautiful red. They have 

 an elegant cup, composed of five narrow hail? 

 leaves, which are much longer than the flower 



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