FAMILY HERBAL 25a 



strong decoction of (hem is good against the jaundice. 

 It operates powerfully by urine, and opens ob- 

 structions. 



Parsly Piert. Percicier. 



A little wild plant, common among our corn, 

 and in other dry places, with small pale leaves, 

 and hairy drooping stalks. It does not grow to 

 more than three or four inches in length, and seldom 

 stands well upright. The stalks are round and 

 whitish. The leaves stand irregularly : they are 

 narrow at the base, and broad at the end, where 

 they are divided into three rounded parts. The 

 flowers are very small : they grow in clusters at ttye 

 joints, and are of a greenish colour. The seed is 

 small and round. The root is fibrous. 



The whole plant is used ; and it is best fresh. 

 An infusion of it is very powerful against the 

 gravel. It, operates violently, but safely, by urine, 

 and it opens obstructions of the liver ; whence 

 it is good also in the jaundice. There is an opinion 

 in many places, of its having a power of dissolv- 

 ing the stone in the b'. adder, but this is idle : there 

 is, however, a great deal of c;ood to be done in 

 nephritic cases, by medicines which have not tins 

 power. 



Macedonian Parsly. Peirosellnum Macedonlcum, 



A plant kept in some of our gardens. It is 

 two feet high The sialk is -lender, branched, 

 and hairy. The leaves roe composed of man)' 

 parts, and those are small and rounded: those on 

 the upper part of the stalk are more finely divided. 

 The flowers are small and white, like those of com- 

 mon parsly ; and they stand like them, in clusters 



