126 FAMILY HERBAL, 



it will take effect much better than by a larger dose 

 swallowed at once. 



Elm. Ulmus. 



A TALL tree native of our own country, and 

 sufficiently common in our hedges. It grows to a 

 great bigness. The bark is brownish, rough, and 

 irregular ; the twigs are also brown, and very tough. 

 The^leaves are small, broad, short, rough to the 

 touch, and finely indented about the edges, and they 

 terminate in a point. The flowers are not' regarded ; 

 they appear before the leaves, and principally about 

 the tops of the tree, and they are only thready ; the 

 seeds are flat. 



The inner bark of the elm boiled in water, makes 

 one of the best gargles for a sore throat that can 

 be supplied by the whole list of medicines. It 

 should be sweetened with honey of roses ; it ia 

 extremely soft and healing, and yet at the same time 

 very cleansing. 



There are two or three other kinds of elms com- 

 mon in garden hedges ; they are brought from other 

 countries, but the bark of the English rough elm i 

 preferable to them ail as a medicine. 



Endive. End hi a. 



A COMMON garden plant kept for salads. It 

 grows two feet high, and the flowers are blue, but 

 we see it a thousand times with only the leaves 

 for once in a flower, and these the gardeners have 

 the art of twisting and curling, and whitening irl 

 Mich a manner, that thev are scarce to be known, 

 as belonging to the plant. Naturally they are long 

 and narrow, blunt at the end, and deeply notched 



