UGQ FAMILY HERBAL. 



pitch. And the whitish resin which is called thus, 

 or frankincense, and is a thing- quite di fie rent from 

 olibanum, or the tine incense, is the natural resin 

 (lowing from the branches of this tree, and harden- 

 ing into drops upon them, it does not differ much 

 from the common turpentine in its nature, but is 

 less offensive in smell. 



The several kinds of pitch, tar, and resin, are 

 principally used in plaisters and ointments. The 

 turpentine produced from this tree also, and cal- 

 led common turpentine, is principally used in the 

 same manner, the finer turpentines being given 

 inwardly. These are procured from the turpen- 

 tine tree, the larch tree, and the silver fir. The 

 yellow resin and the black are sometimes taken 

 inwardly in pills, and they are very good against 

 the whites, and the runnings after gonorrhoeas ; 

 hut for this purpose it is better to boil some bet- 

 ter sort of turpentine to the consistence and give it, 



PioNr. P&onia. 



A FLOWER common in our gardens, but of 

 great use as well as ornament. The common 

 double piony is not the kind used in medicine ; 

 this ie called the female piony ; the single flowered 

 one called the nude piony, is the right kind. This 

 grows two or three feet high. The stalk is round, 

 striated, and branched : the leaves are of a deep 

 Screen, and each composed of several others : 

 the flowers are very large, and of a deep purple, 

 with a green head in the middle. When they are 

 decayed, this head swells out into two or more 

 -;< d vessels, which are whitish and hairy* on the 

 outside, and red within, and full of black seeds, 

 i'lie root is composed of a number of longish or 

 ro uudidi lump-, connected by fibres to the main 



