RUBIACE A. 
Madderworts. 
No. 61. 
SPIGELIA MARILANDICA. 
Carouina Pinx-roor. Worm-grass. 
Geog. Position. United States. 
Quality. Fetid, bitter. 
Power. Anthelmintic, narcotic. 
Use. Worms, intermittent fevers, &c. 
BOTANICAL ANALYSIS. 
Natural Classification. 
Orver RUBIACEA. 
Linnean Classification. 
Cuass V. Pentandria. Orper Monogynia. 
Avtsorities. — Lin. Sp. Pl. 249. Willd. Sp. Pl. I. 824. Woodv. Med. Bot. 
105. Pursh, Flor. N. A. I. 139. Lind. Flor. Med. 524. Bigelow, Med. Bot. TI. 
146. Barton, Veg. Mat. Med. II. 75. Raf. Med. Flor. II. 89. Whitlaw, Med. 
Disc. 27. Lond. Disp. 594. U.S. Disp. 699. Ee. Disp. U.S. 384. Loud. Encye. 
Pl. 134. Ballard and Garrod, Mat. Med. 334. Thomson, Mat. Med.*106. Pereira, 
Mat. Med. II. 354. Griff. Med. Bot. 466. Carson, Illust. Med. Bot. II. 9. Gray, Bot. 
Text-Book, 804. Beach, Fam. Ph. 673. Howard, Bot. Med. 294. Kost, a. 
Med. 246. Wood, Class-Book, 307. 
Genus SPIGELIA. 
Named after Aprtan SprcEtius, a celebrated Professor of saan at Padua : 
author of Isagoge in Rem Herbarium, who died in 1625. 
Synoyrmes. — Spigelie de Maryland, Brimailler (Fr.), Spigelie (Ger), ae 
lia (It.). 
Tue EssentiaL CHARACTERS. 
Canyx. Tube more or less adherent (superior or half supe-~ 
tior). Limb four — five-cleft. 
Corotisa. Regular, inserted mpong the calyx-tube, and of the 
-same number of divisions. 
Stamens. Inserted upon the eube of the corolla, equal. in 
number, and alternate with its segments. eer 
Ovary. ‘Twwo- (rarely more) celled. Style single or par 
