Family Herbal - Electric Scotland

328 FAMILY HERBAL.
Ggldln Stoechas. Stcechas citrina.
A pretty plant, native in the warmer parts of
Europe, and kept in our gardens.
It is a shrubby
herb, two i'cet high, and keeps its leaves all the year.
The stein is woody ; the leaves stand thick on the
lower branches, and they are longish, narrow, and
whitish, especially on the under side. The ilowers
are yellow, and stand at the tops of the stalks ; they
are dry and chahy, and may be kept for a long time.
The whole plant has an agreeable smell, when rubbed
between the fingers.
The leafy
stalks are used their ; tops are best, and
those fresh : gathered an infusion of them works by
urine, and opens obstructions. It is good in jaundices,
and obstructions of the menses.
There is another plant called Arabian stoechas, or
French lavender. It has been described already under
the head of lavender, to which it belongs, for it is
altogether different from this plant.
Stokax Trek. Stj/rax arbor.
A small tree, native of the East, and some
parts of Europe ; but in Europe it yields none of
the resin we call storax. We have it in some
gardens. It is twenty feet high ; the trunk is
covered with a brown bark : that on the branches
is greyish ; the leaves are of a brownish or a dusky
green on the upper side, and whitish underneath : (he
Ilowers are white and large ; the fruit is like a nut,
roundish and little, and is covered with a wooliy coat ;
three of the flowers grow together usually, and are
succeeded by three of these.
We us'- no part of the dee, but a resinous sub-
stance, which is produced from it. This is kept
at tin.' druggist';, and is reddish arid of a fragrant