31* FAMILY HERBAL. 



little plum, of a very austere taste when unripe, but 

 pleasant when mellow. 



The juire expressed from unripe sloes, is a very 

 good remedy for fluxes of the belly. It may be 

 boiled down to a firm consistence, and will so keep 

 the whole year. We used to find this dried juice 

 kept by druggists under the name of German acacia, 

 but they neglect it. 



Smallage. Apium. 



A common wild plant, about ditch sides, 

 with the appearance of celery. These are very 

 numerous and large. The stalk rises two feet and 

 a half in height, and is round, smooth, striated, and 

 branched. The leaves on it are like those from the 

 root, composed of many small parts, which are 

 broad and indented, but they are smaller. The 

 fiowers stand in little umbels at the divisions of the 

 branches : they are small and of a yellowish white. 

 The seeds are small and striated. The roots are 

 long, not very thick, white, and of a strong, but not 

 disagreeable taste. 



The roots are most. used; a strong infusion of 

 them fresh gathered, works briskly by urine. It is 

 good against the gravel, and in 'aundic.es ad other 

 diseases arising from obstructions in the liver and 

 spleen. The seeds dried are good against the colic, 

 and strengthen the stomach. 



Colirine woon. or Snake-wood Tr k. 



1. ign i i ;. i cola, h tin urn. 



A tall *rc of the Mast, irregular in its growth, 

 but not without beauty. The bark i< rough and 

 brown; the leave? ear large, broad in the middle, 



