Family Herbal - Electric Scotland

290 FAMILY HERBAL.
The wood is said to be good in nervous disorder^
but we seldom make any use of it.
Rosemary. Rosemarinus.
A pretty shrub, wild in Spain and France,
and kept in our gardens. It is five or six feet
high, but weak, and not well able to support itself.
The trunk is covered with a rough bark. The
leaves stand very thick on the branches, which are
brittle and slender : they are narrow, an inch long
and thick, and they are of a deep green on tho
upper side, and whitish underneath. The flowers
stand at the tops of the branches among the leaves ;
they are large and very beautiful, of a greyish co-
lour, with a somewhat reddish tinge, and of a very
fragrant smell. Rosemary, when in flower, makes
a very beautiful appearance.
The flowery tops of
rosemary, fresh gathered,
contain its greatest virtue. If they are used in
the manner of tea, for a continuance of time, they
are excellent against head-achs, tremblings of the
limbs, and all other nervous disorders. A conserve
is made of them also, which very well answers
this purpose '.
of the picked flowers,
but
when the conserve is made only
it has less virtue. The con-
serve is best made by beating up the fresh gathered
tops with three times their weight of sugar. The
famous Hungary water is made also of these flow-
ery tops of rosemary. Put two pound of these into
a common still, with two gallons of melasses spirit,
and distil off one gallon and a pint. This is Hun-
gary water.
Rosa Sous, or Sundew. JRos solis.
A very singular and very pretty little plant,