TERAMsra TORTUS JAMAICENST'S. 2* 



pared, will \ r egetate easily ; and this method conveys ahint for sending succulent ber 

 vies an 1 seeds in tamarinds from abroad. Dr. Zimmerman prescribes tamarinds in pu- 

 trid dysentery. I commonly add a portion of Epsom salts till stools are procured ; af- 

 terwards tamarinds alone till the disorder is cared. In obstinate dysenteries I have often 

 found five grains of calomel act like a charm, whether the disorder was kept up by bi-% 

 fious obstructions or worms. Wright, 



Tamarind, wild See Wild Tamarind, 



TANSET. TANACETUM. 



Cl. 19, on. 2. Syngenesia polygamic, super/hia. NaT. om.Composit&r 

 Gen. char. Common calyx imbricate, hemispherical ; rays of the corolla obsolete^ 

 trifid, (sometimes none > and all the florets hermaphrodite). Down, submarginaie; 

 receptacle naked. 



YULGARE. COMMON. 



Leaves bipinnatifid, gash-serrate, naked. 



This plant is a native of Europe, but thrives very well in most parts of Jamaica. It 

 lias a fibrous creeping root, and spreads- to a considerable distance. Leaves alternate,, 

 deep green ; pinnules lawceolate deeply and acutely serrate. The flowers are in ter- 

 minating corymbs and of a golden colour, and flattish. This herb has a bitter ta-teand 

 aromatic smcIL It is esteemed of use in warming and strengthening the stomach ; for 

 which reason- the young leaves have obtained a place among the culinary herbs, their 

 juice being an ingredient in. puddings, &c. It is rarely used in medicine though ex- 

 tolled as a good emmenagogue, anthelmintic, and resolvent. A drachm of the dried 

 flowers has been found very beneficial in hysteric disorders arising from suppression. 

 The seeds and leaves were in considerable esteem for destroying worms in children, and 

 are reckoned good in cholics and flatulencies. I'd some parts of Sweden and Lapland a 

 bath with a decoction of this plant is made use of to assist parturition Cows and sheep 

 eat it ; horses, goats, and swine-, refuse it. If dead animal substance be rubbed witU 

 this plant, the rU'su fly will not attack it. The common wav of using it as a medicine 

 is in decoction, drank as tea. An essential oil is extracted from this plant. 



Tansey, Wh o See Lave^Ia and Wild Tansey. 

 Tayo See Cocoes. 



No English Name. TERAMNUS. 



Cl. 17, or.. 4. Diadelphia decandria. NaT. or. Papiliomee<e. 



Cen.CIIar-- Calyx a one-leaved perianth, two-lipped ; upper lip a little larger,, 

 bifid; lower three-toothed* teeth acute, erect, approximating; corolla papilio- 

 naceous; standard obcordate, spreading, erct, bent down a little ; wings length 

 of the standard,, erect, approximating, rounded at the top ;. keel very small, con- 

 %&~ H. *f ceaied 



