in botany; a name by which Linnaeus designates that portion of every vegetable which arises from the root, and is terminated by the fructification. It comprehends, 1. The trunk, stalk, or stem. 2. The leaves. 3. Those minute external parts called by the same author the folia or supports of plants. 4. The buds, or, as he also terms them, the winter-quarters of the future vegetable.

HERBS-Chrysober. See ACTEA.

HERBS-Robert, (a species of Geranium); a plant in great reputation with some farmers on account of its prevailing virtues against staling of blood and the bloody-flux in cattle, in which cases it is said to be the best among a great variety of means commonly used on these occasions.