52 A COMPENDIUM OF 
cal properties are tonic and purgative, acting 
somewhat like the rhubarb, Not officinal, but 
when given it is used in form of an infusion, 
I oz. to the pint of boiling water; the dose of 
which is 7 i (30 grams). ; 
Gocitinka Gentian.—Natural order Genti- 
anacee. Sexual system of Pentandria Monogy- 
nia. There are many varieties or species of 
gentian, such as the Sentian quingue flora, or five 
flowered, with its slender stem and ovate lan- 
ceolate leaves, with a pale blue corolla; gentian 
detonsa or fringed gentian; gentian ochroleuca, 
with its green and white corolla terminating in 
clusters; gentian alba, or white gentian; GEN- 
,JAN ANDREWS, named for Andrew, the 
botanist; the soapwort gentian, GENTIAN 
SAPONARIA, and many others found growing 
in the Southern and Western States of America. 
This is a large order of herbs, having a color- 
less, bitter juice, and found in abundance in all 
the sub-tropical countries of the world. The 
leaves are generally opposite and sessile; in- 
floresence is either solitary, cymose or in ra- 
cemes; flowers usual 
Toot and the medicin, 
r e » the sovereign of the Illy- 
Tans == Gentian’ lutea is a perennial plant, at- 
taining a height of 2 or 3 feet (60 to go centi- 
meters), with ovate, oblong leaves, s-nerved; 
the stem leaves are ovate, sessile, and acute 
rity 
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