ISO FAMILY HERBAL. 



liitlo more than a stick ; so that it would be idle to 

 expect any good in it. 



Jesuit's Bark Thee. Arbor Peruviana. 



A small tree, native of South America, which 

 has not yet got into our gardens. The trunk is 

 as thick as a man's leg, and its bark is grey. The 

 branches are numerous and irregular, and their 

 bark is of a browner colour, but with the same 

 tinge of grey. The leaves are long and large, 

 three inches in length, and half as much in breadth, 

 and of a pale green colour : they are pointed at 

 the end, but not at all indented at the edges. The 

 flowers are small, and their colour is a pale purple : 

 they stand in great clusters together ; they are long, 

 hollow, and open at the end, where they are a little 

 divided. The fruit is a dry capsule, of an oblong 

 figure. 



The bark is the part used. Besides its certain 

 efficacy against agues and intermitting fevers, it is 

 an excellent stomachic and astringent ; nothing is 

 better to strengthen the appetite, and in overflow- 

 ings of the menses, and all other bleedings, it is 

 of the greatest efficacy. It is best given in powder. 

 The tincture is to be made in brandy, but it is not 

 nearly so good as the substance ; when it is given 

 for disorders of (he stomach, the best way is to pick 

 line pieces <jf the* hark and chew them. 



Jews Ears. Auricula Judcr. 



A kind of fungus, or, as the common phras-e 

 is, of toad's stool, growing upon old elder trees. It 

 is about an inch and a half long, and generally an 

 inch broad, and is somewhat cf the shape of an 



