Family Herbal - Electric Scotland

170 FAMILY HERBAL.
colour, spotted or clouded irregularly with white,
and they are fall of a sort of prickles. The flow-
ers grow at the tops of the stalks,, several
together,
among" the clusters of leaves ; they are oblong,
hollow,
-and very wide open at the mouth ; their
colour ,is yellow, variegated with purple in the
middle, and they have a very pretty appearance.
JJlie fresh gathered tops of the plant are to be
used ; an infusion of them is cooling, and works
by urine. Jt is good against scorbutic complaints,
and in the jaundice.
Hop Plant. Lupulus.
A climbing plant, with very long stalks, common
in our hedges, and cultivated also in many places.
The stalks are roundish, rough to the touch, and
of a purplish colour often, sometimes only green.
The leaves are very large, of a roundish figure,
deeply indented, of a dark green colour, and very
rough also to the touch. The fruit is sufficiently
known .
A decoction of fresh gathered hops is good against
the jaundice ; and the powder of hops dried in an
oven has been often known to cure agues, but upon
this there is no absolute dependance.
White Horehound. Marrubiwn album.
'A white hoary plant, with little flowers in
tufts round the stalks, frequent in dry places in
many parte of the kingdom. It grows sixteen
inches high. The stalks are square, and very
robust,
hairy, pale coloured, and upright. The
leaves stand two at each joint ; they are short and
broad, blunt at the ends, and widely indented at