/ 
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. f 
40 
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^\ 
^ 
round, fmootli below the fpike, and fomewliaj: mcuryated'; the calyx 
is of four leaves, fomewhat ered, oval* obtufe, fmooth, and perfiftent; 
the flowers are fmall, produced on a long cylindrical imbricated fpike, 
which occupies more than half the ftem -, each flower confifts of a 
roundifli tube, narrow at the mouth, and the four fegments are heart 
fhapedjpale, withered, and bent downwards ; the bradea is oval, flefhy. 
d larger than the caly 
th 
ftamina are whitifh, long 
corolla, 
the 
purpl 
the 
g 
ih 
and filiform, and th 
the 
is oval, the ftyl 
horizontally 
the middl 
and. 
di 
ftigma fim^ple ; 
according to Mr. Curtis, contains 
/ 
about twenty unequal brov/n feeds. It grows commonly in paftures 
and way-fides, and flowers in Jui 
The name i 
but it is fl;ill 1 
colle 
of the 
t) 
IS 
omitted in the Lond 
Pharm 
d in the M 
Med 
o 
f th 
acopoe 
> 
Edinb 
h 
e, in which the leaves are mentioned as the pharmaceutical part 
thefe have a v/eak herbaceous fmell 
d 
an 
aufl:ere 
bitteriih fubfal 
fl:e 
attenuating, fubfl:yp 
id their .qualities are faid to be refrig 
d diuretic. 
PI 
nerary 
o was formerly reckoned amongH the mofl efficacious of 
d by the peafants the leaves are now commonly 
pplied to frefli wounds, and cutaneous fores. Inwardly, they h 
been ufed in phthifical ^ compl 
b 
fpitting of blood, and 
fluxes, both'^alvine and hsemorrhagic. The feeds, however, feem 
^ 
better adapted t 
are extremely m 
for the cure of 
Be 
radicis 
fcil. a 
pulmonary difeafes than the 
r 
they 
inous. The roots have alfo been recommended 
intermittents 
d f] 
om 
th 
reius* not 
fervedly 
u 
Plurimse " funt 
exp 
of 
de utilitate 
inis in Tertianis. Periculum ipfe feci, dofi largiori. 
autumn 
drachmis 3 ad 6, quovis die, fub apyrexia 
) : in vernalib 
fubinde opem 
' ■« Celfus, lib. 3 
nihil valuit Pi 
An 
d 5J 
O 
ounce 
fed contra febres 
autem febribus 
two of the expreflled j 
or 
N 
Rofenft. Bafkd. p. 8 
Obf. 10. p. 25. 
Pliny, lib. 26. c. 2. Petzoldt. 
Mat. Med. p 
^ Boyle de utiL Phil. Nat. p. 2. p. 15 
Mat. Med 
I. " iViat. iVied. p. 70. . . 
*' Plantane has been alledged to be a cure for the bite of the rattle-fnake : but for this 
there is probably but little foundation, although it is one of the principal ingredients 
in the remedy of the Negro Caefar, for the difcoverv of which he received a confiderable 
rev/ard from the Affembly of South Carolina." 
, ■ . • . ' ' the 
Duncan's New Edinb. Dift 
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