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stimulant and emmenagogue from the earliest © 
history of medicine, and only a few years ago was 
recognized as a remedy by the U. S. Pharma- 
copocia. The dose of the powder is 5 to 20 
grains; of the extract 5 to 10 grains. When 
found in the stores it is usually in one ounce 
compressed packages, in which the leaves and 
twigs mingle to a great extent. In the play of 
“Hamlet,” Ophelia calls it ‘‘herb of grace on 
Sundays.”” Once used in the Catholic churches 
to perfume the holy water. 
Sabatia, Sabatia, Sabbatia Angularis.—Nat- 
ural order Gentianacez; commonly known as 
the American Centaury. This annual or bien- 
nial plant is a native of the United States, and 
attains the height of from one to two feet; 
adorned with handsome green leaves, varying 
in length, opposite in their arrangement on the 
stem, and either sessile or clasping; in shape 
ovate, entire and obtuse; stem four-sided. 
Flowers of a pale rose-color, and quite showy; 
corolla wheel-shaped. The inflorescence in co- 
tymbus-like cymes, with five yellow stamens to 
each corolla; calyx five-parted, and much short- 
er than the corolla. Two or three handsome 
flowered species are to be found growing in the 
salt marshes, The European variety is not so 
large a plant, and the leaves are ovate, oblong; 
otherwise differing little from the American 
species; odor herby; taste bitter, and perma- 
nently so, Contains a peculiar body termed Ary- 
throcentaurin, resin, gum, albumen, extractive 
matter and oil, Not officinal. Oncein the pri- 
mary list of remedies, and highly thought of as 
a simple tonic, and administered in form of in- 
