184 FAMILY HERBAL. 



White Stock July Flower. Leucoium 

 album. 



A robust garden plant, kept for its flowers, which 

 art variegates and makes double. It grows two or 

 three feet high. The stalk is thick, firm, round, and 

 of a greyish colour. The leaves are long, narrow, 

 hairy, and whitish. The stalks which bear the flow- 

 ers are also of a whitish green, and tender. The 

 flowers are as broad as a shilling, white, and sweet 

 scented. 



The flowers are the part used, and they are to 

 be fresh gathered, and only just blown. A tea 

 made of them is good to promote the menses, and 

 it operates also by urine. An ointment is to be 

 made, by boiling them in hog's lard, which is ex- 

 cellent for sore nipples. 



Jumper Shrub. Jiinrpcrus. 



A common shrub on our heaths. It grows to 

 no great height in England, but in some other 

 parts of Europe rises to a considerably large tree. 

 The bark is of a reddish brown. The branches are 

 lough. The leaves are longish, very narrow, and 

 prickly at the ends. The flowers arc of a yellow- 

 ish colour, but small and inconsiderable. The 

 berries are large, and when ripe blackish : they are 

 uf a strong; but not disagreeable smell, and of a sweet- 

 ish, but resinous taste. The leaves are of a faint 

 bluish green colour. 



The berries are the part most used. We have 

 them from Germany principally. They have two 

 excellent qualities, they dispel wind, and work by 

 urine, for which reason, they are excellent in those 

 colics which arise from the gravel and stone. 

 With these is also made the true Geneva, but the 



