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They stand recommended as aperient, diuretic, &c. but being suspected to have noxious qualities should be used with caution. NYMPHAEA alba. WHITE WATER-LILY. The Root and Flowers. The roots are supposed by some to be in an eminent degree narcotic. OCYMUM Basilicum. BASIL. The Leaves.
Ocymum covered with salt every night Salt a remote cause of scrophula, and immediate cause of sea-scurvy Coloured spatha of Arum, and blotched leaves, if they serve the purpose of a coloured petal Tulip-roots with a red cuticle produce red flowers Of vegetable mules the internal parts, at those of fructification, resemble the female parent; and the external parts, the male one
BASIL, SWEET. Ocymum Basilicum. A pot-herb of considerable use for culinary purposes. It is an annual; and the seeds should be sown in a hot-bed in March, and transplanted into the open ground. It is usually dried as other pot-herbs. BEANS. Vicia Faba. The varieties of the garden-beans are as follow: The early Mazagan and Longpod are planted in November. These will usually be fit for use in June.
The Abbè Molina, in his History of Chili, translated from the Italian by the Abbè Grewvel, mentions a species of Basil, which he calls Ocymum salinum: he says it resembles the common basil, except that the stalk is round and jointed; and that though it grows 60 miles from the sea, yet every morning it is covered with saline globules, which are hard and splendid, appearing at a distance like dew; and that each plant furnishes about half an ounce of fine salt every day, which the peasants collect, and use as common salt, but esteem it superior in flavour.
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