FAMILY HERBAL. %3l 



upon the branches of trees ; on which it makes a 

 very conspicuous figure. It grows two feet high, 

 and its branches are so numerous, and spread in 

 such a manner, that the whole plant is as broad as 

 tail, and appears a round yellow tuft of that di- 

 ameter, quite unlike to the tree on which it grows, 

 in fruit, leaves and bark. * The main stem is half 

 an inch in diameter ; the branches divide always 

 by twos and they easily break at the joints or 

 divisions. The bark is throughout of a yellowish 

 colour, though with some mixture of green o?i 

 the yourig shoot- ; toe .eaves are also yellowish ; 

 they grow two at each joint : they are fleshy, oblong, 

 narrowest at the bottom, and broader toward the top. 

 The flowers are yellow, but they are small* and in- 

 considerable ; the fruit is a white berry, round, and 

 of the bigness of a pea, this is full of a tough, clammy 



j ,lice ' 



1 he leaves of misletoe dried and powdered are 



a famous remedy for the tailing sickness. They 

 are good in all nervous disorders, and have been 

 known to perform great cures taken for a continaar.ee 

 of time. 



I vni UmoB'iMs Thee. Nyrobalanus 

 Indira 



A the:-: native oi the warmer chmates, and not 

 yet got into our gardens, k grows to twenty feet 

 . ' The branches are numerous, and very irre- 

 gularis' disposed. Thehaves are long and narrow : 

 the (lowers are white, and like the blossoms <<f our 

 plum trees ; and the fruit resembles a plum, oblong. 

 and fleshy, vithalong some or kernel ; but die fruit 

 i- goi eralK gathered before the -tone hardens, so that 

 to hove none. 

 VV Mnod U> haw.- the ft nil brought .ever and r 



