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251 



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Redified fpirlt of wine dlflblves nearly the whole of pure Labdanuni 

 into a golden-coloured liquor : on infpiflliting the filtered folution, the 

 finer parts of the Labdanum rifes with the fpirit, ar 



refi 



P 



both 



aker 



d 



lefs agreeable than 



It 



On infufing the Labdanuni in water, 

 fiderably with its frnell and tafte, and in dift 



pi 



nd t1: 

 the j 



s the 



g 



firll: 



iquor 



.,1 



w 



frap-rant effi 



Tl 



d aft 



fin was formerly much employed 



1 



rhal affi 



n n 



nally as a pedoral 

 nd feveral other 



and aftringent m catarrhal aiiedions, dyfenteries, and feveral other 

 difeafes ; at prefent however it is wholly confined to external ufe, and 

 is an ingredient in the ftomachic plaiier, or emplaftrum landani of 



the London Pharm. It is alfo fornetimes ufed in the w;iv of fnmL 



the London Pharm 

 gat 



Ifo fo 



way of fum 



M. M. p. 368 



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ANCHUSA TINCTORIA. 



A^ 



DIERS BUGLOSS, or ALKANET 



STNONTMJ, Anchufa. Ph 



Edhib 



florib 

 Hift, 



Bauh, Pin. p 



Anchufa punicels 



55 



L -^ 



Anchufa Monfpeliana. J, Bauh 



I. tit. /. 583. Rait Hifl, p. 496. Anchufa Alcibiadion 



Gerard, Emac. p . 8 



Anchufa minor purp 



Par^. The at 



p, 517. Alkanna. Pharm. Suic. Wert. Is'c. 

 Clafs Pentandria. Ord. Monogynia. Lin. Gen. Plant. 182. 

 EJf. Gen. Ch. Cor. infundibulif. fauce claufa fornicibus. Sent, bail 



L ' 



infculpta. , 



Sp. Ch. A. tomentofa, fol. lariceolatis obtufis, flamin. corolla 



brevioribus. 



1 



THE 



perennial 



g, round, fibrous, and externally of 



dark purplifli red colour : the ftalk is thick, round 



branched, and 



fes about two feet in height : the leaves are 



gh, hairy 



ong 



from .. 

 clufters 



fi:iaped, obtufe, hairy, and w^ithout footftalks : the flowers vary 

 purpliih to reddifli colour, and terminate the branches in 



No 



the calyx is _divided 



9 



3 



S 



^s in clofe 



five oblong eredt rough perfiftent 



fegments : 



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