2$6 FAMILY HERBAL. 



Doc Rose, on Wild Rose. Cynoshalus, she 

 rosa sylvestris. 



A common bush in our hedges. The stalks or 

 *tems are round, woody, and very prickly. The 

 leaves arc composed each of several smaller ; these 

 stand in pairs on a rib,, with an odd one at the end ; 

 and they are small, oblong, of a bright glossy green 

 colour, and regularly indented at the edges. The 

 flowers arc single, large, and very beautiful : there 

 is something simple and elegant in their aspect that 

 pleases many, more than all the double roses raised 

 by culture. They are white, but with a blush of red, 

 and very beautiful. The fruit that follows there is- 

 the common hip, red, oblong, and containing a great 

 quantity of hairy seeds. 



The fruit is the only part used ; the pulp is sepa- 

 rated from the skins and seeds, and beat up into a con- 

 serve with sugar ; this is a pleasant medicine, and is 

 of some efficacy against coughs. 



Though this is the only part that is used, it is not 

 the only that deserves to be. 'The (lowers, gathered 

 in the bud and dried, are an excellent astringent, 

 made more powerful than the red roses that are com- 

 monly dried for thia purpose. A tea, made strong 

 of these dried buds, and some of them given with 

 it twice H u-i-, in powder, is an excellent medicine 

 for overflowings of the menses ; it seldom fails to 

 i'Ycct a cure. The seeds separated from the fruit, 

 dried and powdered, work by urine, and are good 

 against the gravel, but they do not work very 

 po < oiihllv. 



Upon the branches of this shrub, there grow a 

 kind of spungv fibrous tufts, of a green or redish 

 colour, they are called hedeguar. They are caus- 

 ed by the wounds made bv insects in the stalks, 

 a-- the galls are produced upon the oak They are. 



