5*3 
This plant is common in corn fields, and flowers in June and July 
It may be diftinguiflied from P. dubium. to which it " 
and 
refemblance, by its urn-fhaped capful 
peduncles Handing^ in a horizontal direction 
thofe 
quality, but th 
bears a g 
hairs 
upon the 
The capful 
milky juice, of 
of this fp 
f f omriif crura ^ contain a 
quantity is very incon- 
an 
fiderable, and has not been applied to any medical purpofe ; k. 
extrad prepared from them has been fuccefsfully employed~as"a. 
fedative. a 
The flowers have fomewhat of the fmell of opium, and a mucila 
ginous talte, accompanied with a flight degree of bitternefs. A fyrup 
of thefe flowers is direded in the London Pharmacopoeia, which has 
been thought ufeful as an anodyne and pedoral, and is therefore pre- 
ferred in coughs and catarrhal affedions ; but it feems valued rather 
for the beauty of 
for its virtues as a medicine 
Boulduc Hijl 
ufuell. T. 
Acad, Royal des Scten. de P 
P 
25 
Murray, App. Med. vol, it. p. 213 
Fouquet of Montpellier prefers this extract to opium 
p. 52. Chomel PL 
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PIPER NIGRUM 
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BLACK PEPPER 
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ST NO NT MA, 
1 
Emac. p. 
\ 
Bauh. Pin. 
*• 437-/<?- 
iper nigrum. Pharm. Lond. fc? Edinb. Gerard 
Park. The at. p. 
1. Rail Hift. p 
603 
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Piper rotundum nigrum 
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Piper nig 
Molago codi. Hort. Malab. vol. y.p. 23. tab 
Plukenet. Almag, £.297 
Camel. Phil. Tranf.vol. 24. p. 1773 
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Mar/dens Hiflory of Sumatra^ p 
Pepper Plant 
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Ic. Miller s Illitfl. 
Qlafs Diandria 
£/ Gen. Ch. 
Cal 
Ord. Trigynia. Lin. Gen. Plant. 43 
Cor. o. Bacca monofperma 
o. 
Sf>. Ch 
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P. foliis ovatis feptemnerviis glabris, petiolis fimpliciflimis 
THE 
trailin 
root is perennial : the flems are 
d, fmooth, jointed 
g towards each joint, woody, flender, branched, fcand 
) and from eight to twelve feet in length : the 
or 
entire 
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