356 FAMILY HERBAL. 



W. 



The Walnut Tree. Juglans. 



A COMMON tree m our gardens'; it grows 

 to a great bigness, and is very much branched. 

 The leaves are very large and long ; each is com- 

 posed of a double row of smaller, and has an odd 

 one at the end. These are each of an oval figure 

 and yellowish green colour, and of a pleasant 

 smell. The flowers are little; they are yellow- 

 ish, and arranged in loose catkins. The fruit is 

 covered with a green thick coat, and has with- 

 in a kernel divided into parts, and of an uneven 

 surface. 



The bark of the walnut tree is a good emetic ; 

 it may be given in infusion, or dried and powder- 

 ed ; it vomits easily and plentifully. The skin 

 that covers the kernel is good against fluxes. 



Wall- F lower . Leucoium. 



A COMMON wild plant, but. not without 

 beauty ; it is frequent on old walls, and has yel- 

 low and sweet-scented flowers. The stalks arc 

 woody, and a foot and half high ; the leaves are 

 very numerous, longish, narrow, and of a dead 

 green. The flowers stand in a kind of spikes, at 

 the tops of the stalks, and are yellow and mode- 

 rately large. The seeds are contained in long 

 pods. 



The flowers are used ; and an infusion of them 

 fresh is good against the head-ach, and in all nerv- 

 ous disorders. They are also good to steep in oil, 

 to which tliev give a cordial warmth, and make 

 it good against pains in tlie limbs. But they are 

 pot either way much used at present. 



