Family Herbal - Electric Scotland

apothecaries saxifrage
FAMILY HERBAL. 305
seed. It is diuretic, and
good against the gravel. The roots are best fresh,
and the best way of giving them is in decoction.
Meadow Saxifrage. Scseli pralense
A wild plant also, but though known by the
same English name with the other, very different
in form and flower. It grows to more than two
feet in
height. The stalks are round, deeply striated,
of a dark green colour, and considerably
branched. The leaves are
large, but they are di-
vided into a multitude of fine narrow segments.
The flowers stand at the tops of the stalks in little
umbels or round clusters, and they are small and
yellow. The root is brown, long, and slender, and
is of an aromatic and acrid taste.
The root is used : it is best fresh taken up.
Given in a strong infusion, it works powerfully
by urine, and brings It away gravel.
aiso eases
those colics, which are owing to the same
cause.
Scabious. Scabiosa.
A common wild plant
in our corn uVitK distinguished
by its tall round stalks, and round blue
(lowers. It grows to three feet in height. The
leaves rise
principally from the root, and they lie
spread upon the ground. They are oblong, and
irregularly divided at the edges; they are of a
pale green, hairy, and rough to the touch. The
stalks are round, upright, hairy, of the same pale
green, colour, and they have a (ew leaves on them,
placed two at a joint ; these are more deeply
divided than those on the ground. The flowers
stand at the
tops of thu branches, they
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are of