158 FAMILY HERBAL. 



Gromvel. Lithospermon. 



A wild plant of no great beauty , but distinguished 

 by its seeds, which are hard, glossy, and resemble 

 so many pearls, as they stand in the open husk. 

 The plant grows a yard high. The stalk is round, 

 thick, firm, very upright, and branched. The 

 leaves are oblong, not very broad, rough, and hairy, 

 of a deep blackish green colour, and placed irregular- 

 ly ; the (lowers are small and white : when they are 

 fallen off, the cups remain, and contain these shining, 

 and, as it were, stony seeds. The plant is fre- 

 quent about hedges. 



The seeds are the only part used ; they work 

 powerfully by urine, and are of great service in 

 the gravel and all other obstructions ; they are best 

 given in powder, with a great deal of barley-water 

 at the same time. 



Ground-Pine. Chamocpitys. 



A very singular little wild plant, of a mossy 

 appearance, and resinous smell : it grows four 

 inches high ; the stalks are hairy, and seldom stand 

 upright ; the leaves are very close set, and the 

 young shoots which grow from their bosoms perfectly 

 obscure the stalk ; it seems a thick round tuft. These 

 leaves are short, narrow, and divided into three parts 

 at their ends, and they stand two at every joint of the 

 stalk : they are rough and hairy like the stalk. The 

 ilowers are little and yellow, and they stand at the 

 joints. 



The whole plant is used, and it has great vir- 

 tue ; it is to be. used dry in powder or infusion. 

 It works strongly by urine, and promotes the menses. 

 It opens also all obstructions of the live* and 



