304 FAMILY HERBAL. 



It grows forty or fifty feet high, and is very much 

 branched. The leaves stand two or three pairs 

 upon a stalk, in the manner of those of the lentisk, 

 and are not unlike those of that tree in shape ; they 

 are of a dark green colour, small, oblong, and 

 fleshy. The flowers are moderately large, and of 

 a deep dusky blue ; the fruit is a berry, of the big 

 ness of a large red cherry, which is black when ripr 

 The wood is white in the outer part, and yellow 

 the heart, and these two parts are kept separat 

 and were long supposed the woods of two differei 

 trees. They have the same smell and taste, onl 

 (hat the yellow has them both in the greatest perfec 

 lion : and in the same manner, their virtues are the 

 j-anie ; but the yellow is so much superior, that tht 

 white deserves no notice. 



The yellow saunders is best taken in the man* 

 rier of tea, it is this way not unpleasant, and k 

 cordial, good against disorders of the nerves, and 

 hysteric complaints, and opens obstructions, it 

 also gently promotes perspiriation, and works by 

 urine. 



White Saxifrage. Saxifraga alba 



A very pretty plant in our meadows, dis- 

 tinguished by the regular shape of its leaves, and 

 its white snowy flowers. It grows ten inches high ; 

 the stalk is round, thick, firm, upright, and a little 

 hairy. The leaves are of a pale green colour, and 

 flesh v substance : they are of a roundish figUTe, 

 and indented about the edges ; and they stand upon 

 long fool-stalks. The flowers arc large and white ; 

 they grow in considerable numbers on the tops of 

 the stalks. The root is composed of a parcel of 

 small white or reddish granules. 



The root is used ; and these small parts of which 

 it consists have been used to be called by ignorant 



