Family Herbal - Electric Scotland

FAMILY HERBAL. 207
mediately from the root, and have thick foot-stalks ;
they are oblong-, broad, of a deep and often a
purplish colour, and are extremely hairy, the hairs
being- long-, white, and set so thick, that they give
it an aspect of woolliness. The stalk is round,
slender, tolerably firm, upright, of a purplish colour,
and also hairy : the leaves on it fire smaller than those
from the root, but like them in shape, and they are
in the same manner very hairy. The flowers are
not very large, but they are of a beautiful yellow,
and they have the more singular aspect, as the plant
has so much whiteness. The seeds are winged with
a white down.
The young leaves rising from the root, are the
part used. They are of the same nature with those
of coltsfoot, but they possess their virtues in a much
greater degree. In many other parts of Europe,
where the plant is more common, it is a constant
medicine in diseases of the lungs,
in coughs, asth-
mas, and the first
stages
of consumptions ; it is
best given in form of a strong infusion ; and I have
known it tried here with more success than could be
expected from so simple a remedy,
in cases of such
consequence. It is scarce wild, but it is easily propagated
in gardens. Let but one plant of it ripen
its seeds and leave them to the chance of the winds,
and the garden, the walls, and the neighbouring
places will never be without a sufficient supply of it,
for all purposes,
M
Mace. Maris.
The spice we call mace, is the covering of the
stone
meg.
or kernel pf a fruit, within which is the nut-
The tree will therefore more naturally be