Family Herbal - Electric Scotland

300 FAMILY HERBAL.
those* of tennel, into slender end small parts, bu
they are thick and fleshy, ihe stalk is round, hollow,
striated, and a little branched. The flowers
are small and yellow, and they stand at the tops of
the stalks in great clusters or umbels, in the manner
of those of fennel. The whole plant has a warm
and agreeable taste, and a good smell.
The leaves are used fresh ; but those which grow
immediately from the root, where there is no stalk,
are best ; they are pickled, and brought to our
tables ; but they
are often adulterated, and other
things pickled in their place. The juice of the
fresh leaves operates very powerfully by urine, and
is good against the gravel and stone, against sup-
pressions of the menses, and the jaundice.
Sanicle. Sanicula.
A pretty wild plant common in our woods.
and its distinguished by regular leaves, and small
umbels of flowers. It grows a foot and a half
high. The leaves are numerous, and they all rise
immediately from the root : they stand on long footstalks,
and are : very conspicuous they are of a
roundish shape, but cut in so, as to appear five
cornered, serrated about the edges, and of a very
deep glossy green colour, and shining surface- The
a talk is striated, upright, naked : on its top grows a
little round cluster of flowers :
they
are small and
white, and each is succeeded by two little rough
^eds. The root is fibrous.
The leaves are used. A strong decoction of them
is good against the overflowing of the menses, and
the bleeding of the piles.
It has been vastly
celebrated for the cure cf ruptures, but that i>
idle,