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ceeding flowers small, and sometimes clustered 
and axillary. The first flowers have yellow 
petals, whilst the latter are gray and hoary; 
stamens from 3 to 20, with one pistil. There 
are two other varieties of the plant that differ 
from each other in a few minor particulars 
only. Frostweed is said to contain tannin and 
a bitter extractive matter; no thorough analysis 
of the plant has been made. At one time it was 
highly thought of as an alterative in scrofula 
and glandular diseases, but is now rarely used 
except by the eclectics in form of a decoction. 
Name derived probably from the Greek he/ios, 
the sun, and anthemum, or antheros, a flower, 
and the common name frostwort, because the 
pubescence resembles hoar frost, 
Hyssopus, Hyssop, Hyssopus Officinale.— 
Natural order Labiate. This small plant, with 
its sessile leaves about an inch long, lanceolate 
in shape and somewhat obtuse, is, like most of 
the mint family, a native of the southern parts 
of Europe but now cultivated in many parts of 
the world as a garden plant; flowers are found 
in axillary clusters, purple in color and tubular 
in shape, with four long stamens and pistillate; 
calyx tubular, five toothed, with many nerves. 
The Hyssop contains a small quanity of ‘annin, 
a bitter principle and a volatile oil, and is said 
to be a stimulant, sudorific and carminative in 
its effects, and the infusion was employed many 
years ago as a remedy in chronic catarrhs, now 
no longer officinal. The name is derived from 
the Hebrew ezob, and Latinized into Hyssopus. 
Lobelia, Lobelia, Lobelia Inflata, Indian To- 
bacco.—Natural order Lobeliacez, also Emetic 
