Family Herbal - Electric Scotland

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tions of the liver : jaundices have been cured by
it singly.
Dwarf Elder. Ebulus.
A PLANT so much resembling the common
elder-tree, that it may be easily mistaken for it till
examined. It grows four or five feet high. The
stalks are green, round, tender, and upright ; and
they have very much the appearance of the young
shoots of elder ; but there is no woody part from
whence they rise. The leaves are large, and com-
posed of several pairs of others, as those of elder,
with an old one at the end ; but these are longer than
in the elder, and they are serrated round the edges.
The flowers arc imall and white; but they stand
in very large clusters or umbels, just as those of the
elder ; and they are succeeded by berries which
are black when ripe ; but that is a condition in
which we seldom see them ; for the birds are so
fond of them, they eat them as they come to maturity.
The root is white and creeping ; and the
whole plant dies down every year to the gound.
It is wild in England, but not common ; a great
quantity of it grows at the back of Cuper's gardens.
It may be dried : but the best way of
This works strongly both
giving it is in the juice.
by stool and urine, and has often cured dropsies.
Dyer's Weed. Luteola.
A VERY singular and pretty wild plant ; it
grows on dry banks and upon walls, and is known
at sight by its upright stalks, and very long spikes
of greenish yellow flowers. It grows to four feet
or more in height. The stalk is thick, firm, chan-
nelled, and in a manner covered with leaves : they