Family Herbal - Electric Scotland

126 FAMILY HERBAL,
it will take effect much better than by a larger dose
swallowed at once.
Elm. Ulmus.
A TALL tree native of our own country, and
sufficiently common in our hedges. It grows to a
great bigness. The bark is brownish, rough, and
irregular ; the twigs are also brown, and very tough.
The^leaves are small, broad, short, rough to the
touch, and finely indented about the edges, and they
terminate in a point. The flowers are not' regarded ;
they appear before the leaves, and principally about
the
the tops of the tree, and they are
only thready ;
seeds are flat.
The inner bark of the elm boiled in water, makes
one of the best gargles for a sore throat that can
be supplied by the whole list of medicines. It
should be sweetened with honey of roses ; it ia
extremely soft and healing, and yet
at the same time
very cleansing.
There are two or three other kinds of elms common
in ; garden hedges they are brought from other
countries, but the bark of the English rough elm i
preferable to them ail as a medicine.
Endive. Endhia.
A COMMON garden plant kept for salads. It
grows two feet high, and the flowers are blue, but
we see it a thousand times with only the leaves
for once in a flower, and these the gardeners have
the art of twisting and curling, and whitening irl
Mich a manner, that thev are scarce to be known,
as belonging to the plant. Naturally they are long
and narrow, blunt at the end, and deeply notched