Family Herbal - Electric Scotland

362 FAMILY HERBAL,
ly divided, like those of the true Roman worm
wood, and of a pale green on the upper side, and
a silvery white below. The stalks are stiff, linn,
woody, and branched; they are of a whitish
colour, and have a loose downy skin upon them :
the flowers are small and brownish ; they resemble
those of wormwood, and stand in a kind of
loose spikes at the tops of the stalks.
The seeds are used : our druggists keep them ;
and very often the unripe buds of the flowers in
their place, arc mixed with them. They arc good
against worms in children ; the good women give
them mixed with treacle : and few medicines
for this purpose have better effect. For people
of nicer palates, they may be powdered, and made
into boluses
Treacle Wormseed. Camelina.
TITO is not the plant^ which produces what
the druggists sell under the name of wormseed ;
kind of
that is the produce of an Egyptian
wormwood, just described. This is an English
herb of the podded kind, and very
distinct in its
whole appearance from that, and all of its sort.
It is two i'cet high. The stalks are round, upright,
firm, and toward the top divided into
branches ; the leaves are very numerous, and
stand irregularly. They are longish, narrow,
pointed at the cuds, not at all dented at the edge.*,
and of a dusky green
colour. The flowers are
stand in small clusters at
little and yellow ; they
the tops of the branches, and under them is a kind
of spike of ; pods these are long and slender,
green at first, but of a kind of brown colour when
i *pe ; and m each is a great number of seeds ;