Family Herbal - Electric Scotland

grow upon it all the way :
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these are of the same
shape, long, narrow, and smooth, and of a pale green
upon the stalk, and deeper green at the root. The
flowers stand on the divisions of the top of the stalk,
they are large, white, and composed as it were of a
quantity of thick scales
The roots contain the greatest virtue ; they are
excellent mixed in pultices, to apply to swellings.
The- flowers possess the same virtue also, being emol-
lient and good against pain. An oil is made of the
flowers steeped in common oil of olives ; but the
fresh flowers are much better in the season ; and the
root may be had fresh at all times, and it possesses the
same virtues.
Lily of the Valley. Lilium convallium.
A very prettv plant, but so different from the
former, that one would wonder how it came to
be called by any part of the same name. It is six
or eight inches high. The leaves arc large, long,
and broad, of a deep green colour, and full of very
thick ribs or veins. The stalks are weak, slender,
angular, and green ; they bend towards the top,
and on each there stands, or rather hangs, a row
of while flowers ; they are roundish, hollow, and
of a delicate and pleasing smell ; these are succeeded
by berries, which are red when they are
ripe.
The flowers are used. A tea made of them, and
drank for a constancy, is excellent against all nervous
complaints ; it will cure nervous head-aches, and
deal too much
tremblings of the limbs : a great
has been said of this plant,
for
p-'op!^
call it a re-
medy for apoplexies and the dead palsies, but though
all this is not true, enough is, to give the plant a
reputation, aud bring it again into use.