362 FAMILY HERBAL, 



ly divided, like those of the true Roman worm 

 wood, and of a pale green on the upper side, and 

 a silvery white below. The stalks are stiff, linn, 

 woody, and branched; they are of a whitish 

 colour, and have a loose downy skin upon them : 

 the flowers are small and brownish ; they resem- 

 ble those of wormwood, and stand in a kind of 

 loose spikes at the tops of the stalks. 



The seeds are used : our druggists keep them ; 

 and very often the unripe buds of the flowers in 

 their place, arc mixed with them. They arc good 

 against worms in children ; the good women give 

 them mixed with treacle : and few medicines 

 for this purpose have better effect. For people 

 of nicer palates, they may be powdered, and made 

 into boluses 



Treacle Wormseed. Camelina. 



TITO is not the plant^ which produces what 

 the druggists sell under the name of wormseed ; 

 that is the produce of an Egyptian kind of 

 wormwood, just described. This is an English 

 herb of the podded kind, and very distinct in its 

 whole appearance from that, and all of its sort. 

 It is two i'cet high. The stalks are round, up- 

 right, firm, and toward the top divided into 

 branches ; the leaves are very numerous, and 

 stand irregularly. They are longish, narrow, 

 pointed at the cuds, not at all dented at the edge.*, 

 and of a dusky green colour. The flowers are 

 little and yellow ; they stand in small clusters at 

 the tops of the branches, and under them is a kind 

 of spike of pods ; these are long and slender, 

 green at first, but of a kind of brown colour when 

 i *pe ; and m each is a great number of seeds ; 



