Ig FAMILY HERBAL. 



of small lumps, fastened together by filament. 

 This root is the part most used ; it is good in fits 

 of the gravel, for it promotes urine greatly and 

 safely. For this purpose the juice should be given,, 

 or a strong decoction "of the fresh root. When 

 dried it may be given in powder to stop the whites 

 and purgings, it i a gentle and safe astringent. 



There are several other plan(s called in English 

 dropworts, which are very different in their qua- 

 lities, and one of thern is poisonous in a terrible 

 degree; this last is called hemlock dropwort; care 

 must therefore be taken that the right kind is used, 

 but this is sufficiently different from all the others. 

 The flower is composed of six little leaves, and is 

 full of yellow threads in the middle ; the flowers of 

 all the others are composed only of five leaves each. 

 They are all umbelliferous plants, but this is not; 

 the flowers grow in clusters, but not in umbels : 

 Ihey grow like those of the^ ulmaria or meadow 

 sweet. 



Duck-weed. Lcnticula. 



A SMALL green herb, consisting of single, little 

 roundish leaves, which float upon the surface of 

 the water, and send their roots into it for nourish- 

 ment, without sticking them into the mud. It is 

 the small green herb that covers almost all our 

 standing waters in summer. There are two other 

 kinds of it, one with smaller leaves and many fibres 

 from each, another with only one fibre from each 

 leaf: both these are green all over ; and a third 

 kind with larger leaves, which are purple under- 

 neath, but all these have the -nmc virtue, and it 

 is no matter which is taken. The juice is to be 

 given ; and it is to be continued for several days. 



It works powerfully by mine, and opens ebstrue*- 



