Family Herbal - Electric Scotland

2:22 FAMILY HERBAL.
ted. The herb grows a foot high.
like those of camomile, only of a blacker green, and
larger. The Bowers stand ten or a dozen near one
another, at the tops of the branches ; but they grow
separate, not in a cluster. The whole plant has a
strong smell.
The infusion of the fresh plant is good in all
the menses,
hysteric complaints, and it promotes
The herb boiled soft, is an excellent pull ice for the
piles.
Meadow Sweet. Ulmaria.
A wild plant, frequent about the sides of rivers,
with divided leaves, and beautiful tufts of white
flowers. It is four feet high. The stalk is round,
striated, upright, firm, and. '.of a pale green, or sometimes
of a purple colour. The leaves are each com-
posed of about three pair of smaller, set on a thick
rib, with an odd leaf at the end : they are cf a fine
green on the upper side, and whifish underneath,
and they are rough to die touch. The (lowers are
small and white, but they stand so close, that the whole
cluster looks like one large flower. The seeds are
set in a t\\ isted order.
An infusion of the fresh tops of meadow sweet,
is an excellent sweat, and it is a little astringent.
It is a good medicine in fevers, attended with purgings.
It is to be given in a bason once in two
hours.
Mechoacan Plan!'. Mcchoacana.
A climring plant, native of the West Indies,
I( is capable of running to a great height, when
it can be supported
: it will climb to the tops
of all trees. The stalks are angulatcdj slender,