The new family herbal; or, Domestic physician : enumerating, with accurate descriptions, all the known vegetables which are any way remarkable for medical efficacy; with an account of their virtues in the several diseases incident to the human frame ... / by William Meyrick.

  • Meyrick, William.
Date:
1790
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Credit: The new family herbal; or, Domestic physician : enumerating, with accurate descriptions, all the known vegetables which are any way remarkable for medical efficacy; with an account of their virtues in the several diseases incident to the human frame ... / by William Meyrick. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Flowers: fituated in the bofoms of the leaves; they are final], and white. Flower-cup: a fingle leaf, divided into five awl-lhaped fegments. Blossom: a fingle tubular, or funnel-fhaped petal, with a cylindrical tube, and a border, divided into five obcule, upright fegments. Chives: five; they are very (hort, and have oblong tips, which are fituated in the mouth of the bloffom. Pointal: the feed-buds are four in each blofi'om, and from the center of them rifes a fender (haft, which is equal in length to the tubular part of the bloffom, and furniihed with an obtufe, divided fummit. Seed-vessel: wanting. Seeds: four after each flower; they are egg-lhaped, hard, fmooth, and contained in the bottom of the cup. $ It delights in a dry gravelly foil, but even in fuch fituations it is not common. The bloffoms appear in May and June. The feeds of Gromweil operate powerfully by urine, and are ferviceable in the (lone, gravel, and mod other obftruc- tions; the bed method of giving them is in barley water, after having reduced them to a fine powder. GRAINS OF PARADISE, Amomutn Granum Paradiji, j. j. Root: perennial, knobbed, or tuberous, and creeping, with cluders of fmall fibres proceeding from it in feveral places. Leaves: long, narrow, and produced in cluders, or they encircle each other at the bafe, fo as to form a kind of ilem. Flowers : produced on (hort branching flower-dems, which rife immediately from the root; they are fmall, and of a pale red, or white colour. Ilower-cup: very fmall, and marked with three (light notches at the mouth. Blossom : a (ingle petal, with a very (hort tube, and a border, divided into three or four oblong fegments, one of which is much larger than the others. Chive, fingle ; it is of an oblong form, and fcarcely to be didingui(hed from the divifions of the bloffom. The tip is broad, and adheres to the end of the chive flatways. P d 2 POINTALI
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