Family Herbal - Electric Scotland

158 FAMILY HERBAL.
Gromvel. Lithospermon.
A wild plant of no great beauty , but distinguished
by its seeds, which are hard, glossy, and resemble
so many pearls, as they stand in the open husk.
The plant grows a yard high. The stalk is round,
thick, firm, very upright, and branched. The
leaves are oblong,
not very broad, rough, and hairy,
of a deep blackish green colour, and placed irregular-
they are
ly ; the (lowers are small and white : when
fallen off, the cups remain, and contain these
shining,
and, as it were, stony seeds. The is plant fre-
quent about hedges.
The seeds are the only part used ; they work
powerfully by urine, and are of
great service in
the
gravel and all other obstructions ; they are best
given in powder, with a great deal of barley-water
at the same time.
Ground-Pine. Chamocpitys.
A very singular little wild plant, of a mossy
appearance, and resinous smell : it grows four
inches high ; the stalks are hairy, and seldom stand
upright ; the leaves are very
close set, and the
young shoots which grow from their bosoms perfectly
obscure the stalk it
; seems a thick round tuft. These
leaves are short, narrow, and divided into three parts
at their ends, and they stand two at every joint
stalk :
they
of the
are rough and hairy
like the stalk. The
ilowers are little and yellow, and they stand at the
joints.
The whole plant is used, and it has great vir-
tue ; it is to be. used dry in powder or infusion.
It works strongly by urine, and promotes the menses.
It
also all obstructions of the live* and
opens