Family Herbal - Electric Scotland

164 FAMILY HERBAL.
The flowers are small and yellow, and they commonly
stand at the tops of long spikes of pods, which
have been flowers before them.
The whole plant is used, an infusion of it fresh
is the best way of taking it. This dissolves tough
phlegm, and is excellent in asthmas, hoarsenesses,
and other complaints of the breast. This
simple infusion, made into a syrup with honey,
also answers the same purpose, and keeps all the
year.
Hemlock. Cicuta.
A large, tall, and handsome umoelliferous
plant, frequent in our hedges. It grows to six
feet in
height ; the stalk is round, firm, hollow,
and it is upright of a dark ;
green, and often
stained with purple and yellow. The leaves are
very large, and divided into very fine and numerous
partitions. The flowers are small and white,
and stand in large clusters on the tops of the stalks.
The seeds are roundish. The whole plant has
a strong disagreeable smell, and has been called
poisonous.
The roots are excellent in pultices for hard
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Hemp. Cannabis.
Hemp is a tall plant, of a coarse aspect, culti-
vated in fields for its stalk. It grows five feet high,
and is a robust plant ; the stalk is thick and rigid ;
the leaves are numerous, they are large, and each
composed of six or seven smaller ; these are disposed
in the manner of fingers, and are of a deep green
colour, rough, narrow, and serrated at the edges.
The flowers in hemp grow in some plants, and the