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Sprget1A ANTHELMIA. ANNUAL Worm- 
| GRASS. 
KEKE EREREEREEEE 
Class and Order. : 
Prentanpria Monoeynia. 
Generic Character. 
Cor. infundibulifermis. Caps. didyma, 1-locularis, poly- 
sperma. a 
Specific Character and Synonyms. 
SPIGELIA Anthelmia ; foliis inferioribus oppositis ; superio- 
ribus quaternis, floribus spicatis secundis. R. et P. 
Flor. Perwo. v. 2. p.9.— : 
Spigeuia Anthelmia; caule herbaceo, foliis summis qua- 
ternis. Willd. Sp. Pl. 1. p. 824. Amen. Acad. 5. 
p. 133. t.2. Roem. et Sch. Syst. Vegetab. 4. p. 190. 
ANTHELMENTHIA quadrifolia spicis terminalibus et e centro 
frondis. Browne Jam. 156. t. 37. f. 3. 
—e a fructu testiculato. Plum. Gen. p. 
= 2 ; 
Arapasaca Brasiliensibus dicta planta. Marcgr. Bras. 46. 
ELIOTROPIUM Brasilicum Herbe Paridis folio.  Petiv. 
Gazyph. tab. 59. f. 10.—Catal. 589. | 
The Spigeuia Anthelmia is a plant of considerable 
eflicacy for the cure of worms, and febrile diseases sup- 
posed to arise from the presence of worms. It was first 
brought into notice by Dr. Patrick Browne, in his Civil 
and Natural History of. Jamaica ; but it does not seem to 
have been ever much in use in this country ; but another 
species A. marilandica (supra n. 80.) under the name of 
Indian Pink, was at one time in considerable vogue. There 
2 be no doubt that these plants are very efficacious 
: remedies, 
