Family Herbal - Electric Scotland

2GS FAMILY HERJRAL.
they stand very thick, and are sharp, or almost
prick iv at the extremities. The flowers are yellowish
and inconsiderable ; and the fruit is a long
and large cone, which hangs down ; whereas that
of the true fir tree, or the yew-leaved fir, stands
upright.
The tops of the branches and young shoots are
used : thev abound with a resin of the turpentine
kind. They are best given in decoction, or brewed
with beer. They are good against
the rheumatism
and scurvy; they work by urine, and heal
ulcers of the urinary parts.
Pitch and tar are produced from the wood" of
this tree, the tar sweats out of the wood in burn-
ing, and the pitch is only
tar boiled to that consis-
tence. To obtain the tar, they pile up great heaps
of the wood, and set fire to them at top, and the
tar sweats out of the ends of the lower, and is
caiched as it runs from them.
Burgundy pitch
is made of the resin of the wild
pine tree, which is common turpentine boiled in
water to a certain consistence, if they boil it longer,
it would be resin, for the common resin is
only this
turpentine boiled to a hardness.
The Ammoniacum Plant. Ammoniac am.
A TALL plant, native of the East, and very im-
perfectly
described to us. What we hear of it is,
that it grows on the sides of hills, and is five or six
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