Family Herbal - Electric Scotland

FAMILY HERBAL. 347
cine ; it works by urine, and is an universal balsam.
It is good in coughs and ail other disorders of the
lungs ; and it stops the whites, and the weaknesses
after venereal complaints.
There are several oilier kinds of turpentine in
use in the shops produced from the diflerent trees ;
the Venice turpentine is from the larch tree ; the
Strasburg turpentine from the yew-leaved fir ;
and the common turpentine from the wild pine.
They all have been mentioned already, under
the names of the several trees which produce them ;
but tins is the finest kind. What is called Cyprus
is obtained from the same tree with
turpentine
the Chio turpentine, the right turpentine tree, but it
is coarser and browner, otherwise the same with the
Chio.
T ltsan. dndroscem it m .
A very singular and beautiful plant, and of
great virtues. It grow-; in cur wood*?, and under
hedges, but not very common : if, is kept in many
gardens. It grows two feci in height. The
stalks are firm and smooth, of a reddish colour
tolerably upright, and not at all branched, except
for some young shoots near the top. The
leaves stand two at each joint, opposite to one
another, and at no great distance ; they are very
large, and of a shape to approaching oval. Their
colour is a brownish green ; they
are smooth and
not serrated at the edges. The flowers are not
very large, but of a beautiful
yellow- ; they resemble
those of St. John's wort, and are like them
full of yellow threads, \vhien, when rubbed, stain
the hands red 1 he fruit is a kind of berry,
black when ripe, and containing a great quantity
of small seeds, The whole plant in autvuna