CINCHONALS. 241 STELLATES, 
Habitat. Marshes; common in gardens, with all the flowers neuter and radiant, 
__. forming the “ Gueldres Rose.” 
Quality. Leaves emetic, drastic ; fruit austere. 
Uses. Leaves as those of Sambucus; fruit a miserable food for savage northern nations. 
= Natural Order, Stellates; Galiacee (V. K., p. 768.) 
Prevailing Quality. Astringent. 
Rusia. Linneeus. 
Fruit succulent, didymous. Corolla rotate. 
L. R. tinctorum Linneus.—(Manper.) Fig. 322. 
Heayes in fours, netted, lanceolate, with reversed hooks at the edge ; lobes 
of the corolla taper-pointed. 
Habitat. Levant. Commonly cultivated in 
fields in the south of Europe. : 
Quality. A mild astringent and tonic. Colours 
_,, ted the bones of animals that feed on it. 
Uses. A valuable red dye. 
AsperuLta. Linneus. 
Fruit dry, didymous. Corolla funnel- 
shaped, or campanulate. Style bifid, 
, With capitate stigmas. 
lL. A, odorata Linnzeus.—(Wooprtrr.) 
‘eaves in whorls of 6 and 8, lanceolate, 
smooth, rough at the edge and keel ; 
___ fruit covered with hooked bristles. 
Habitat, oe woods in most parts = pawbte = a. 
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; ies. Said oka aiareuey Sean & an ‘ami herb-tea ; dried leaves said to drive away 
Moths from clothes. 
teense De nantes 
THE MYRTAL ALLIANCE (V.K., p. 717.) 
eulural Orters af Myrtals. 
Myrabalans (Combretacew.) ge dotless. Stamens definite. Ovules 
1 or 2, pendulous. Ovary 1-celled. 
Murtieblooms (Myrtacee.) Leaves dotted. Stamens 00. Ovules 
axile. Ovary 2- or more- celled. 
Natural Order, #yrabalans ; Combretacew (V. K., p. 717.) 
ailing Quality. Astringent. 
TrerminaLia. Linnceus. fe ar 
@campanulate, deciduous. Petals 0. Fruit a wingless juiceless drupe. 
T. Bellerica Roxburgh.—(BELERIc MYROBALAN.) | 
eaves alternate, elliptical, sg acute at each end, smooth, on long 
Stalks, with 2 small glands at the end of the seer ere ee 
tat. Mountains of India, Quality. Fruit astringen’ wluble in water, is 
Kernels eaten in India; said to intoxicate ; gum, though sceiaaeeed 
. inflammable, and burns like a candle. soe 
x ‘Big, 322,—A. whorl of leaves of Rubia tinetorum. 
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