Family Herbal - Electric Scotland

FAMILY HERBAL.
places, but kept in gardens
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also. The stalks are
numerous, and a foot or more in length, but they
do not stand upright : they are round, green,
and tough, and generally trail upon the ground.
The leaves are oblong, broad of a shining green
colour, smooth on the surface and placed two
at each joint. The flowers are large and blue :
they are bell-fashioned, and stand on long foot
stalks : the fruit succeeding. Each is composed
of two longish pods ; each containing several
seeds.
The whole plant is used fresh. It is to be boiled
in water, and the decoction drank with a little
red wine in it. It stops the overflowing of the
menses, and the bleeding of the piles.
Spelt, or St. Peter's Corn. Zen.
A PLANT of the corn kind, resembling barley ;
sown in some parts of Europe, but not much
known in England. It grows a foot and a halt
high. The stalk is round, hollow, jointed, and
green ; the leaves are grassy, but broad. At the
tops of the stalk stands an ear like that of barley,
but smaller and thinner, though with long beards ;
the grain is not unlike barley in shape, or between
that and wheat, only
much smaller than either.
The seed or grain is the part, used ; it is supposed
to be strengthening and in some degree astringent,
but we know very little of its qualities, nor are
they considerable enough to quire after them.
encourage us to in*
Pimpernel. Jittigallis Jlore rubro.
A PRETTY little plant common in corn fields
and garden borders. The stalks are square, smooth,
green, but not very upright : they are five or si*