Family Herbal - Electric Scotland

FAMILY HERBAL. 293
out, and is good against headaches, and all other
nervous disorders which attend certain fevers. The
conserve is good against weaknesses of the stomach,
and pains in the bowels. It is pleasant, and may be
taken frequently by people subject to hysteric dis-
orders with great advantage.
Rupture-wort. Jlcrniaria.
A little low plant, wild in some parts of the
kingdom, but not common, and kept in the gardens
of the curious. It grows three or tour inches long,
but the stalks lie on the ground : many grow from
the same root, and they spread into a kind of circular
figure. They are slender, round, jointed, ami
of a pale green. The leaves are very small, and
stand two at each
nearly of an oval figure ; they
joint, and are also of a pale green. The leaves
are very small ; the root is very long, but not thick.
The juice of the fresh gathered herb, externally
applied, has been much celebrated against ruptures ;
perhaps without any great foundation. An infusion
of it, taken inwardly, works by urine,
and is very good against the gravel, and in the
jaundice.
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Saffron. Crocus.
A very pretty plant, of the same kind with
what are called crocuses in our gardens. It is
planted in fields, in some parts of England, and
yields a very profitable kind of produce. The
flowers of this plant appear in autumn, but the leaves
not till sometime after they are fallen. These flowers
have, properly speaking, no stalk ; they rise im