495 
THE root is p 
? 
fibres : 
:»ranched 
the 
j 
em is jointed 
; feldom reache 
thick 
creeping, and hung with 
fucculent, fcored, procumb 
fting of three or four pairs of pinn 
the p 
nice ui lour pairs or pinnse, terminated by an ode 
fegments are ovate, pointed, ferrated, feffile : the fl 
th : the leaves are pinnated 
minated by an odd one 
are fmall, and ftand in axillary umbels, which are compofed of from 
fix to nine general radii, and about an equal number of partial radii : 
th 
ii 
p* 
is no eenera 
.1 
x, or 
P 
fev( 
which 
ovate pointed lealit 
um, but th 
th 
e 
P 
one 
fts of 
s 
corolla is compofc 
c 
01 
fl 
ve 
d bent 
d 
ovalifh, white, larger! at the circumferen 
Q 
at their apices : the five filaments are 11 
fpreading, rather longer than the corolla, and furnifhed with roundifh 
antherns : the germen is fmall, placed beneath the corolla, and fupports 
flender reflexed fiyles, terminated by blunt ftigmata : the fr 
ihaped, fmall, fcored, divilible into two feeds, which are fl 
fid 
€ g& 
one fide, on the other convex and fcored. 
and ditches, and flowers in July and Auguft 
is common 
PI 
This plant is not admitted into the Materia Medica of any of th 
rmacopceias which we have feen, except that of the Londor 
College, where it has lately been received in the character of 
fcorb 
or rath 
as 
e&or of acrid humours, efpeciallv 
anifefted by cutaneous eruptions and tumours in the lymph 
fyftem, for which we have the teftimony of Beirie b and Ray 
But 
cc 
beft proofs of its efficacy are the following given by Dr. Witherin 
A young lady, fix years old 
feafe, by taking three 
» 
cured of an obftinate 
d I h 
ning 
g 
twice a 
not naufeous, 
fpoonfuls of the j 
to adults three or four ounces 
in fimilar complaints, with the greateft advantage. 
peatedly g 
day 
It 
7 
d 
hildren take it readily if mixed with mil 
In 
the dofe I have given it, it neither affecl:s the head, the fto 
the W»r^1« '^ 
els. 
See h 
c 
i Die?, 'dc la Mat Mea\ : 
J 
c Symp. f, 213. 
No. 
37 
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