Family Herbal - Electric Scotland

FAMILY HERBAL. 165
seeds on others. The flowers are inconsiderable,
the seeds are large, roundish, grey, and
and whitish ;
have a white pulp within. The root is fibrous.
The seeds are used in medicine ; an emulsion made of
them cures the jaundice.
Hemp Agrimony. Eupatorium cannabinum.
A tall plant growing by waters, with tufts
of red flowers and leaves, divided in the manner
of those of hemp. It grows five feet high ;
the stalk is round, thick, reddish, and very up-
right. The leaves are large, of a pale green^
and fingered ; they stand two at each joint ; the
flowers grow in bunches as big as a man's fist,
on the tops of the branches, and are of a bright
red.
The root fresh gathered and boiled in ale is
used in some places as a purge ; it operates strongly,
but without any ill effect, and dropsies are said
to have been cured it by singly.
Black Henbane. Hyoscyamus niger.
A common wild plant, of a dismal aspect
and disagreeable smell. The farm yards and
ditch banks in most places are full of it. It
grows two feet high. The stalk is thick, round,
hairy, and clammy to the touch ; but not very
upright. The leaves are large, long, and broad,
deeply serrated at the edges, of a bluish green colour,
hairy, and clammy to the touch, and leav-
ing a disagreeable smell upon
the hands. The
flowers are large, and stand in rows on the tops
of the branches, which often bend down ; they
are of a strange yellowish brown colour, with
purple
veins. The seeds are numerous and brown.