Family Herbal - Electric Scotland

FAMILY HERBAL. 159
spleen, and is good in jaundice, the rheumatism,
and most of the chronic disorders.
Groundsel. En'gcron
sive scneclo.
A common weed in our gardens, and upon walls,
with little yellow {lowers, and downy seeds ; it
"rows eight inches : high the stalk i= round, fleshy,
: the leaves
tolerably upright, and green or purplish
are oblong, broad, blunt, and divided at the edges.
The (lowers are small and yellow ; they grow in
a sort of long cups at the tops of the stalks and
branches.
The juice of this herb is a gentle and very good
emetic. It causes vomiting without any great
irritation or pain ; and it is also good for cutaneous
foulnesses applied outwardly.
Guaiacum Tree. Guaiacum.
A grfat tree, native of the West Indies, and
to be seen in some of our curious gardens. The
fruit is very large, and ihe branches are numerous ;
the leaves ;ire small, each is composed of two or
three pair of smaller ones, with no odd leaf at the
end of the rib. These are short, broad, roundish,
and of a dusky green colour. The {lowers are
small and yellow, but they grow in
large
clusters
together, so that the tree when in bloom makes a
very pretty appearance.
The bark and wood are the only parts of the tree
used ; they are given in decoction, to promote '.weat,
and so cleanse the blood ; they are excellent against
the rheumatism, scurvy, and all other which arise from what is
disorders,
commonly called foulness
of the blood, but they must be taken for a consider-