Family Herbal - Electric Scotland

310 FAMILY HERBAL.
Bastard Sena. Colutea
A common shrub kept for ornament in our
gardens. The trunk is not very
robust, but it
keeps upright, and is covered with a whitish rough
bark. The leaves are composed each of several
pairs of smaller, set on a common rib, with an
odd loaf at the end ; but they are rounder and
broader in proportion to their length than those
of the true sena. The flowers are yellow :
they
are but small, but they hang- in long branches,
and are succeeded by pods, which look like blad-
ders of a
greenish colour.
The leaves are used : some give an infusion of
them as a purge, but they are very : rough
they
work both upwards and downwards, and are only
fit for very robust constitutions. For such as can
bear them, they are good against rheumatic pains
Senega Tree. Scnica.
A tree frequent in the East, and named from
a gum which it affords, and which is brought in
great quantities into Europe. The tree is large
and spreading ; its trunk is covered with a rough
bark, its branches with a smoother, of a pale brown,
and they are very full of thorns.
The leaves are large, and they are composed of
many smaller, set in pairs, very beautifully and
evenly about a common rib, with an odd one at the
end of each rib :
they are oblong,
and of a beauti-
ful green. The flowers arc white, and of the
shape of a pea blossom ; the fruit is a large and
flat pod, jointed or divided into several parts,
with seeds in them ; the tree is of (he acacia kind,
in many things very like that winch produces the