194 FAMILY HERBAL. 



eellent for sweetening juleps and drinks in fevers, and, 

 mixed with gait of wormwood, it stops vomitings. 



Lead wort. Dentillaria sive plumbago. 



A little plant, native of some parts of Europe, 

 and kept in our gardens. It is two feet high ; the 

 stalks are slender, tough, and weak, hardly able to 

 support themselves upright. The leaves are of a 

 paie bluish green colour, oblong, not very broad, 

 and they surround the stalk at the base. The ilow- 

 ers are red, they are singly, very small, but they 

 stand in thick, oblong clusters, on the tops of the 

 stalks, and each is succeeded by a single seed, which 

 is very rough, and stands naked. 



The dried root is to be used ; a piece of it put 

 into the mouth, fill it with a great quantity of rheum, 

 and is often an almost instantaneous cure for the 

 head-ache. It also cures the tooth-ache in the same 

 manner as pellitory of Spain does : it is more hot 

 and acrid than even that fiery root. 



Indian Leaf Tree. Malabathrum. 



A tall and beautiful tree of the East Indies, 

 not unlike the cinnamon tree in its manner of 

 growth. The trunk is as thick as our elms, and it 

 grows as tall, but the branches are disposed with 

 less regularity ; the wood is brittle, and the you n g 

 shoots are of a pale brown. The leaves are very 

 large, nine inches long, and seven in breadth, and 

 not at all indented. The flowers stand in clusters 

 on the tops of the brandies ; they are small and 

 greyish, and the fruit is of the bigness of our ed 

 currant. It i* common in the mountainous parts of 

 the Qii*t. 



