Family Herbal - Electric Scotland

1D2 FAMILY HERBAL.
hairy, angulated, and of a pale green and tough.
The leaves are broad at the base, and narrow at the
point, serrated round the edges, and of a pale green
above, and whitish below. The flowers are yellow,
and moderately large ; the fruit is of an oval
figure, hairy, and full of juice. Care must be taken
in it touching when ripe, for the sharp juice flies
out with violence.
The juice of the fruit is pressed out, and a thick
matler that subsides from it is separated and dried ;
the druggists keep this and call it elatheriuiu, it is
a violent
purgative, but little used.
Cucrow Flower, or Lady's SiMcck.. Carda-
ininc,
A VERY beautiful wild plant, frequent in our
meadows in spring, and a great ornament to them.
It grows a foot high. The leaves which rise from
the root, are winged very regularly and beautifully,
and are spread in a circular manner, the stalk is
round, thick, firm, and Lpright. The leaves that
grow on it are smaller, finely divided, and stand
Mngly. The flowers grow in a little cluster, on
that spike on the top, and from the bottom of the
leaves. They are huge, of a fine white, often
tinged with a blush of red.
The juice of the fresh leaves is to be used ;
it is an excellent diuretic, and is good in the
gravel and all suppressions of urine. It also opens
obstructions, and is good in the jaundice and
green sickness ; and a course of it against the
scurvy.
Cudweed. Gnaphalium.
A COMMON wild plant, but singular in is