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Show SEA ERYNGO OR HOLLY. 281 dient into what is commonly called mild artificial asses’ milk, which is made thus :— Mock <Assgs’ Mrix. Take an ounce of hartshorn shavings, put it into a quart of boiling barley water, boil it down to a pint, add two ounces of candied eryngoroot, and a pint of new milk; boil it fora quarter of an hour, and strain it for use. Another Method.—Boil in three pints of water,till half wasted, one ounce each, of eryngo root, pearl barley, sago, andrice; strain it off, put a table-spoonful of the mixture into a coffee. cup of boiling milk, so as to render it of the consist ence of cream, and sweeten with loaf or Lisbon sugarto the tasie. a SEA ERYNGO or HOLLY. ERYNGIUM MARITIMUM. ee andria. Order II. Digynia. Essent. Gen. Cuar. Flowers capitate: Receptacle paleaceous. Spec. Cnar, Leaves radical, somewhat round, plicate, spinous: Heads pedunculate: Palee tric DESCRIPTION. I+ rises from one to two feet in height. Theleaves are roundish, plaited, firm, spiny like those of holly, marked with white reticulated veins, of a pale blueish green colour. The flowers are of a blue colour, and terminate the branches in round heads. The calyx consists of five erect sharp-pointed leaves. The co- rolla is composedof five petals, which turn inwards. The ger- men is beset with short hairs. Bis TO RY, It grows abundantly on the sea coasts, and flowers. from July till October. MEDICAL VIRTUE. r : ont ; ic in in a 2 small The root :is mild and mucilaginous, and aromatic degree. : . ° i. wre 2 ngreIt is a mild balsamic pectoral, and enters as an 10g |