174 FAMILY HERBAL. 



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preceding, but very different both in face j..y 



virtues. The root is little ; from this grow ah, j? 

 dance of stalks ; they are round, weak, and una), t 

 to support themselves ; they spread every wa; 

 about, and are six inches in length. The greater, 

 part of every stalk is covered with leaves, so that g ,.. 

 appears a green substance, of the thickness of one.l 

 little finger ; these leaves are short and thick ; the, v 

 are of a fine green colour, and are broad at the basti 

 and sharp at the point. The flowers are little, and 01 

 a bright yellow ; they grow in great numbers, from 

 the tops of these branch.es, and are of the shape of 

 those of common houseleek, and rounded by such 

 seed-vessels. 



The juice of this kind of houseleek is excel- 

 lent against the scurvy and all other diseases arising: 

 from what is called foulness of the blood. It 

 is said that a continued course of it will cure 

 the king'.i evil : but we want experience to support 

 this. 



ILpocist. Hj/pocistus. 



A vr.iiY singular plant, native of the Grecian 

 islands, and of some of the warmer parts of Europe. 

 It is five inches high, and of a singular figure. 

 It does not grow in the earth at large as other 

 plants, but to the root of some species of cistus ; 

 as missletoe grows to the branches of trees. The 

 stalk is thick and fleshy, and is often twice as large 

 toward the top, as at the bottom. It is whitish, or 

 yellowish, or purplish, and has a parcel of short 

 and broad skinny films, by way of leaves upon it. 

 The (lowers grow at the top, with leaves of the same 

 kind among them. They are large and beautiful, 

 and urc succeeded by fruits of a roundish figure, 



