300 FAMILY HERBAL. 



those* of tennel, into slender end small parts, bu 

 they are thick and fleshy, ihe stalk is round, hol- 

 low, striated, and a little branched. The flowers 

 are small and yellow, and they stand at the tops of 

 the stalks in great clusters or umbels, in the manner 

 of those of fennel. The whole plant has a warm 

 and agreeable taste, and a good smell. 



The leaves are used fresh ; but those which grow 

 immediately from the root, where there is no stalk, 

 are best ; they are pickled, and brought to our 

 tables ; but they are often adulterated, and other 

 things pickled in their place. The juice of the 

 fresh leaves operates very powerfully by urine, and 

 is good against the gravel and stone, against sup- 

 pressions of the menses, and the jaundice. 



Sanicle. Sanicula. 



A pretty wild plant common in our woods. 

 and distinguished by its regular leaves, and small 

 umbels of flowers. It grows a foot and a half 

 high. The leaves are numerous, and they all rise 

 immediately from the root : they stand on long foot- 

 stalks, and are very conspicuous : they are of a 

 roundish shape, but cut in so, as to appear five 

 cornered, serrated about the edges, and of a very 

 deep glossy green colour, and shining surface- The 

 a talk is striated, upright, naked : on its top grows a 

 little round cluster of flowers : they are small and 

 white, and each is succeeded by two little rough 

 ^eds. The root is fibrous. 



The leaves are used. A strong decoction of them 

 is good against the overflowing of the menses, and 

 the bleeding of the piles. It has been vastly 

 celebrated for the cure cf ruptures, but that i> 

 idle, 



