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262 



pare a beer from them, m great eflimation for its diuretic and ant* 



Our Pharmacopoeias dlred the efiential oil and a 



fcorbutic ouaUties. 



ops: 



fpirituous diilillation of the Juniper berries, to be kept in the Hi 

 the former, in dofes of two or three drops, is found to be an d&]vp 



and llimulating medicine 



the 



latter contains 



this oil, and 



fome other aromatic feeds united to the fpirit, and therefore 



not confic 



fro 



the 



/' 



genume geneva imported from Holland ; 

 but there is great reafon to believe, that the gin.ufually fold here '' 



frequently nothing but the common fumentacious fpirit, imbued with 

 turpentine, or other materials to give it a flavour. 





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VALERIANA OFFICINALIS. 



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OFFICINAL VALERIAN. 



I' 



STNONTMA, Valeriana fylveflris. Pharm, Lond, l^ Edink 



Valeriana fylveflris major. Baiih» tin, p. 164. Gerard, Emac.p, 



Park, Theat. p. 122. Raii Hiji, p, 0,^^* Syitop. p. 200, 



1075- 



Valeriana foliis pinnatis, pinnis dentatis. Hal, H'lfl. Sthp, Helv.n, 



1 1 o. Valeriana officinalis. 



Bot, Arr, p, 2)^, Flor, Daft. p. 570 



Hudfon, Flor^ Aug, p, 12. 



Withering, 



J * 



^ 



«e 



Foliis anguftioribus* 



N. 



Clafs Triandria. Ord, Monogynia. Lin, Gen, Plant. 44. 



^ % 



^ Gen, Ch, Cal, o. Cor. i-petala, bafi hinc gibba, fupera. Bern, i. 



Sp, Ch. 



V. floribus triandris, foliis omnibus pinnatis. 



V 



£bre 



THE root is perennial, confifting of 



/ 



number of fimple 



upright, fmooth, 



nd, branched, and rifes from "two to four feet in 



height 



v^hich unite at their 



■ % 



[led, roi 

 the lea 



origin 



th 



I gre 

 ftalk 



is 



on the ft 



fheathes; they are comppfed of fe 



placed in pairs upon fh 



broad 



/ 



tated 



t 



eined, fmooth pinnae, with an odd 



fhaped, partially den- 



the end, which is 



the 



*-. 



