5/55 FAMILY HERBAL. 



Y. 



Y 4 n u o w , JMillefoll um . 



A COMMON plant in our pastures, and by 

 waj sides. It is two or three feet high ; the stalk 

 is round, upright, firm and striated : the leave? 

 are long-, and not very broad, and they are the 

 most beautifully divided of those of any known 

 plant. 



Their colour is a deep green, and the parts 

 into which they are divided are exceedingly fine, 

 slender, and regularly arranged : the flowers stand 

 at the fops of the branches, in the manner of 

 umbels, in round and large tufts ; they are white, 

 but they often have a blush of red. The root 

 is white and creeping, and the seeds are white, 

 broad, and flat. 



The "whole plant is used fresh gathered, but 

 the best part is the tops of the shoots ; these are 

 to be boiled in water, and the decoction sweeten^ 

 cd with fine sugar ; it is excellent against the 

 bleedings of the piles, and bloody fluxes, and 

 the overflowing of the menses. It is also heal- 

 ing and good in ulcerations of the ureters : and 

 it operates gently by urine, 



Z. 



The Zedoarv Plant. Zccloaria, 



AN Eastern plant, very singular, and very 

 beautiful. The root creeps under flic surface, 

 and lias many tuberous lumps, some long, and 

 some round ; but the long are preferred. The 

 round have by many been called zerurnbclh ; 

 though the zerunibeth is properly another root.. 



