1D2 FAMILY HERBAL. 



hairy, angulated, and of a pale green and tough. 

 The leaves are broad at the base, and narrow at the 

 point, serrated round the edges, and of a pale green 

 above, and whitish below. The flowers are yellow, 

 and moderately large ; the fruit is of an oval 

 figure, hairy, and full of juice. Care must be taken 

 in touching it when ripe, for the sharp juice flies 

 out with violence. 



The juice of the fruit is pressed out, and a thick 

 matler that subsides from it is separated and dried ; 

 the druggists keep this and call it elatheriuiu, it is 

 a violent purgative, but little used. 



Cucrow Flower, or Lady's SiMcck.. Carda- 



ininc, 



A VERY beautiful wild plant, frequent in our 

 meadows in spring, and a great ornament to them. 

 It grows a foot high. The leaves which rise from 

 the root, are winged very regularly and beautifully, 

 and are spread in a circular manner, the stalk is 

 round, thick, firm, and Lpright. The leaves that 

 grow on it are smaller, finely divided, and stand 

 Mngly. The flowers grow in a little cluster, on 

 that spike on the top, and from the bottom of the 

 leaves. They are huge, of a fine white, often 

 tinged with a blush of red. 



The juice of the fresh leaves is to be used ; 

 it is an excellent diuretic, and is good in the 

 gravel and all suppressions of urine. It also opens 

 obstructions, and is good in the jaundice and 

 green sickness ; and a course of it against the 

 scurvy. 



Cudweed. Gnaphalium. 



A COMMON wild plant, but singular in is 



