Family Herbal - Electric Scotland

324 FAMILY HERBAL.
by stool and vomit, and is good in the rheumatism
and dropsy ; but it is not every constitution that can
bear the use of such remedies.
Lesser Spurge. Esula minor.
A lesser plant than the former, but sufficiently
robust ; it is a native of the same part of the world,
but is common in our gardens. It is a foot high.
The leaves are longish and very narrow, but
rounded at the end : the stalks are thick, round, and
red ; the flowers are small and yellow ; and the seed-
vessels large and three cornered. The whole plant
is full of a sharp milky juice, but most of all the
root.
The bark of the root is used. It works by vomit
and stool as the former but ; though with less violence,
yet too rough for most constitutions. It is good iu
the rheumatism.
Squill.
Scilla.
A very common plant by the sea side in Italy
and other parts of Europe, but not native of
this country. It grows a yard high, and when
in flower, is very beautiful ; the stalk is thick,
round, fleshy, and green,
or else reddish. The
flowers are white ; they are small but they have
their beauty. They stand in a long spike down
a third part of the stalk ; the leaves are very large
and long ; they arc of a deep green colour, and
grow immediately from the root ; the root is
round, and of a pound ; weight it is' composed
like an onion of many coats one over another,
and is full of an acrid slimy juice. The colour
is white or red, and they call it the white or ret',
squill.