164 FAMILY HERBAL. 



The flowers are small and yellow, and they common- 

 ly stand at the tops of long spikes of pods, which 

 have been flowers before them. 



The whole plant is used, an infusion of it fresh 

 is the best way of taking it. This dissolves tough 

 phlegm, and is excellent in asthmas, hoarse- 

 nesses, and other complaints of the breast. This 

 simple infusion, made into a syrup with honey, 

 also answers the same purpose, and keeps all the 

 year. 



Hemlock. Cicuta. 



A large, tall, and handsome umoelliferous 

 plant, frequent in our hedges. It grows to six 

 feet in height ; the stalk is round, firm, hollow, 

 and upright ; it is of a dark green, and often 

 stained with purple and yellow. The leaves are 

 very large, and divided into very fine and nume- 

 rous partitions. The flowers are small and white, 

 and stand in large clusters on the tops of the stalks. 

 The seeds are roundish. The whole plant has 

 a strong disagreeable smell, and has been called 

 poisonous. 



The roots are excellent in pultices for hard 

 swell i nil's. 



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Hemp. Cannabis. 



Hemp is a tall plant, of a coarse aspect, culti- 

 vated in fields for its stalk. It grows five feet high, 

 and is a robust plant ; the stalk is thick and rigid ; 

 the leaves are numerous, they are large, and each 

 composed of six or seven smaller ; these are disposed 

 in the manner of fingers, and are of a deep green 

 colour, rough, narrow, and serrated at the edges. 

 The flowers in hemp grow in some plants, and the 



