Family Herbal - Electric Scotland

5/55 FAMILY HERBAL.
Y.
Y 4 n u ow , JMillefoll um .
A COMMON plant in our pastures, and by
waj sides. It is two or three feet high ; the stalk
is round, upright, firm and striated : the leave?
are long-, and not very broad, and they
are the
most
beautifully divided of those of any known
plant.
Their colour is a deep green, and the parts
into which they are divided are exceedingly fine,
slender, and regularly arranged : the flowers stand
at the fops of the branches, in the manner of
umbels, in round and large tufts ; they are white,
but they often have a blush of red. The root
is white and creeping, and the seeds are white,
broad, and flat.
The "whole plant is used fresh gathered,
but
the best part is the tops of the shoots ; these are
to be boiled in water, and the decoction sweeten^
cd with fine ; it is sugar excellent against
the
bleedings of the piles, and bloody fluxes, and
the
overflowing of the menses. It is also heal-
in ulcerations of the ureters : and
ing and good
it operates gently by urine,
Z.
The Zedoarv Plant. Zccloaria,
AN Eastern plant, very singular, and very
beautiful. The root creeps under flic surface,
and lias many tuberous lumps, some long, and
some round ; but the long are preferred. The
round have by many been called zerurnbclh ;
though the zerunibeth is properly
another root..