OXTLPKPXR's OOMPLITK HBRBAL. SSS 



a foot and a half high. The leaves are pinnated, nerrated, 

 ah arp- pointed, and of a pleasant green. The flowers are 

 white ; and, toward the evening, they have a light fra- 

 grance. The seeds are small and brown. 



Place. — It is a native of Spain, but is cultivated in our 

 gardens for the root, which is pleasant and wholesome. 



Time. — It flowers here in June and July. 



Oavemment and Virtues. — It is under Venus. The root 

 is opening, diuretic, and cleansing, useful in opening ob- 

 structions of the reins and bladder, and frees them from 

 slimy phlegm. It is serviceable against dropsy, by causing 



§reat plenty of urine, helps the jaundice, and liver disor- 

 ers. The young shoots are pleasant and wholesome food, 

 of a cleasing nature, and easy digestion, provoking urine. 



SLOE BUSH.— (Prunw Spinosa,) 



Callko also Black Thorn. 



Descrip. — This is a bush, whose tough branches are hard 

 sharp thorns, sending forth white five- leaved flowers early 

 in the spring, before the leaves appear, which are small 

 and oblong, finely dented on the edges. The flowers are 

 succeeded by small round fruit growing on short stalks, 

 green at first, but when ripe of a fine purplish black co- 

 lour, of a sour austere taste, and not fit to be eaten until 

 mellowed by the frost. 



Place. — It grows every where in the hedges. 



Oovemment and Virtiies. — This is a Saturnine plant. The 

 fruit is chiefly used, and is restringent and binding, gooik 

 for all kinds of fluxes and hemorrhages. It is serviceable 

 in washes for sore mouth and gums, to fasten loose teeth, &c. 

 A handful of the flowers infused, is an easy purge ; and, if 

 taken in wine and water, is excellent to dispel windy colic. 

 The bark reduced to powder, and taken in doses of two 

 drama, has cured agues. The juice expressed from the 

 unripe fruit is a very good remedy for fluxes of the bow- 

 els ; it may be reduced by a gentle boiling to a solid cou- 

 tistence, in which state it will keep the year round. 



SMALLAGE. — (Apium GraveoUmt.) 



Detcrip. — The roots are about a finger thick, wrinkled, 

 and sinking deep in the earth, of a white colour, from which 

 aprixig many winged leaves, of a yellow colour, each single 

 leaf is three square ; the stalks rise about three feet high, 

 •mooth ohanoellt»d, rather angular, and very much bran<'li- 



