400 
it an efficacious remedy. b Simon Paulli c and others fpeak of 
ffe&s as an emmenagogue ; but neither this, nor indeed any oth 
power, is now attributed to Balm. Prepared as tea ho 1 
akes a grateful diluent drink in fevers, and in this way 
nlv ufed either by itfelf or acidulated with the im™. 
lemons. 
the juice of 
1 
(Tential oil, which Hoffman fuppofes to be a p 
*• » r+'* 
f.. 
d liter ent from many 
fyuem, probably poffefles no qualities peculiarly 
b 
Shiacl* hot. p. 436. 
Fr. Hoffman, Diffl de reined, domeft. §. 20. Boerh, Chem. T. ii. p. 67. 
<^lA^^-^w-*<: 
ANEMONE PRATENSIS. ; MEADOW ANEMONE; 
Or, PASQUE FLOWER 
SYNONYM A. Pulfatilla nigricans. Pbarm. Edinb. Pulfuilla 
flore minore nigricante. Banb. Pin. p. 177. Pulfatilla flore rai- 
.. nore. Gerard. Emac.fi.tf6. Pulfatilla vulgaris, faturatiore flore. 
Cluf.Hifi. i.p.2^6. Pulfatilla flore claufo obfoleto, petalis refiexis. 
Hehv.pulf. p. 65.1.11. Pulfatilla foliis decompofitis pinnatis, flore 
pendulo, limbo reflexo. ,Hort. Cliff. 223. A. pratenfis. Hon 
Dan. 611. 
Clafs Polyandria. Ord. Polygyria. Lin. Gen. Plant. 694. 
. Gen. Ch. Cal o. Petala 6-3. Sem. plura. 
§p. Ch. A. pedunculo involucrato, petalis apice reflexis, foliis 
bipinnatis. 
THE root is perennial, thick, Jhort, and fends off feveral ftrong 
W^ a flo^erftem is fmooth, befet with foft hairs, near the top 
iui mined with a lacimated involuerum, and rifes about fix or eight 
inches 
