Family Herbal - Electric Scotland

194 FAMILY HERBAL.
eellent for sweetening juleps and drinks in fevers, and,
mixed with gait of wormwood, it stops vomitings.
Leadwort. Dentillaria sive plumbago.
A little plant, native of some parts of Europe,
and kept in our gardens. It is two feet high ; the
stalks are slender, tough, and weak, hardly able to
support themselves upright. The leaves are of a
paie bluish green colour, oblong, not very broad,
and they surround the stalk at the base. The ilow-
ers are red, they are singly, very small, but they
stand in thick, oblong clusters, on the tops of the
stalks, and each is succeeded by a single seed, which
is very rough, and stands naked.
The dried root is to be used ; a piece of it put
into the mouth, fill it with a great quantity of rheum,
and is often an almost instantaneous cure for the
head-ache. It also cures the tooth-ache in the same
manner as pellitory of Spain does : it is more hot
and acrid than even that fiery root.
Indian Leaf Tree. Malabathrum.
A tall and beautiful tree of the East Indies,
not unlike the cinnamon tree in its manner of
growth. The trunk is as thick as our elms, and it
grows as tall, but the branches are disposed with
less regularity
the wood is ; brittle, and the you n g
shoots are of a pale brown. The leaves are very
large, nine inches long, and seven in breadth, and
not at all indented. The flowers stand in clusters
on the tops of the brandies ; they are small and
greyish, and the fruit is of the currant.
bigness of our ed
It i* common in the mountainous parts of
the Qii*t.