Family Herbal - Electric Scotland

244 FAMILY HERBAL.
tips, and have the same bag of liquor at the base, and
more a great deal than the
they sting very terribly ;
common nettle.
The seeds are the part used ; they are good
against coughs, shortness of breath, and hoarsenesses ;
the seeds of the common nettle are commended for
this purpose, but these are greatly preferable.
The
best way of giving them is in the manner of tea,
sweetened with honey.
Common Nightshade. Solarium vulgare.
A wild plant, that over-runs gardens, and all
other cultivated places, if not continually weeded out.
It grows two fee? high ;
the stalks are roundish, thick,
but not very erect or strong, and of a dusky green.
The leaves are broad and roundish, but they terminate
in a point. They are of a dark green colour,
and stand on foot stalks. The flowers grow in little
clusters, ten or a dozen in a bunch ; they are white,
with a yellowish centre, and they are succeeded by
r,ound black berries.
The leaves are used fresh, and only externally.
They are very cooling, and applied bruised to inflammations,
scalds, burns, and troublesome erup?
tions on the skin.
Deadly Nightstade. Solatium Icthale
It may seem strange to mix a poison among medicines,
but a part of this herb has its uses. This
is a wild plant of a dulf and dismal aspect. It
grows five feet high. The stalks are angulated,
and of a deep green. The leaves are very large,
broad, and flat, and they also are of a dull dead
green. The flowers stand singly on long foot-
#talks, arising from the bosom of the leaves, and