Family Herbal - Electric Scotland

256 FAMILY HERBAL.
on the tops of the stalks. The seeds are small, some*
what hairy, and of a dusky colour.
The seed is used ; and it is best given in powder.
It operates powerfully by urine, and it is
good against stoppages of the menses, and in the
gravel and colics, arising from that cause. It
is also recommended against the dropsy and jaun-
dice.
Wild Parsnep. Pastinaca sylvestris.
A wild plant, common about our road sides.
It is three feet high. The stalk is straight, upright,
round, striated, and yellowish. The leaves
are composed of many broad divisions, and resem-
ble those of the garden parsnep, but they are smaller.
The ilowers are little and yellow : they grow
at the
tops of the stalks, in large, rounded tufts, and the
seeds are flat, and of an oval figure. The root is
long, white, and well tasted.
The root is to be used. A strong decoction of
it works by urine, and all opens obstructions. It is
and will
good against the gravel and the jaundice,
bring down the menses.
Pavana Shrub. Pavana
A shrubby plant of the East Indies, of a
beautiful, as well as singular aspect. It is six or
seven feet high. The stem is woody, firm, and
naked almost to the top. The leaves grow upon
long foot stalks, and they all rise nearly together,
at the upper part of the stem :
they are large, of
a rounded figure, and divided at the edges pretty
deeply into several parts : their colour is a deep
green. The Ilowers are small, and of a greenish
colour. The fruit is of the bin'ne^s of a hazle