Family Herbal - Electric Scotland

FAMILY HERBAL. 329
smell but very foul. It is good in all diseases of the
breast and lungs, being an excellent balsam. It is
also good in all nervous and hysteric ^complaints, and
it promotes the menses.
Straw j? jni\ Plant. Fragaria.
A very common little plant, both in our woods
and gardens. The leaves stand three upon each
stalk, and they are large, broad, sharp at the point,
and serrated about the edges ; the stalks trail upon
the ground, and take root at the joints : the (lowers
are white ; they stand four or five together upon a
long stalk rising from the root and without any
veins : they are white, and moderately large ; the
fruit is well known. When ripe it is red, and of an
agreeable taste.
The fresh leaves are used ; an infusion of them is
good liquor to wash a sore mouth or throat ; taken
in large quantities, it works by urine, and is good
against the jaundice.
S uccory . Ch
ich o ? eum .
A common plant in our gardens. It is near
a yard high, but of no great beauty. Tiie stalk
is round, striated, thick, green and strong. The
principal leaves grow from the root ; they are long,
narrow, and deeply indented, and are of a bluish
green, and hairy ; those on the stalks are smaller,
and have no foot-stalks. The flowers are of the
shape of those of dandelion, but they are blue :
the seed is winged with down. The flowers grow
to the sides of the stalks, not at the tops, as in
dandelion. The root is long and brown on the
surface ; it is full of a milky juice, and white
within.
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