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42 ON THE MEDICINAL AND TOXICOLOGICAL 



noticed a remarkable modification of the fruit. Crypt, of Eng. 

 by Hooker. It affords a lake tint. Turner; Wade's PI. Rari- 

 ores. 



Grijjithsia coraUina, Ag. ) Greenport, L. I., Port Jefferson 

 Co7iferva " Dill, f and Key A7est. W. II. II. 



Merat & De Lens state that the infusion of C. corallina 

 (Lour.), mixed with sugar, forms the cakes used in China and in 

 Japan, as a restorative while traveling. Flore Cochinc. 848. In 

 this it is supposed to resemble the fucus of the genus Gelidium, 

 of which the celebrated Tablettes de Ilokiac were made. ii. 

 383. 



^ - . _ . ^ ( River Conferva. In streams and 



Confo'va Tivularis^ u. \ . » 



•^ ' ( rivers ; common. 



M. CoUadon, a pharmaceutist of Geneva, has employed this 

 in the manufacture of paper. According to Murray, the con- 

 vervre emit a light similar to that of oxygen. He advises their 

 administration in asthma and phthisis. Apparat. Med. v. 554; 

 Lsennec employed some species of fucus for these purposes; 

 they, however, contain iodine, which the confervas do not. Pliny 

 recommends them highly as an application to injuries and contu- 

 sions of the body. Lib, xxvii. C. 9 ; Merat, ii. 382. 



Conferva setacea. 



Mr. Turner observes, that it yields a fine lake fluid on being 

 macerated in fresh water. "Wade's PI. Rariores, 165. This ob- 

 server did not notice the intolerable odor which Major Yelley 

 says it emits when recent. 



„ „ .- ^ . ( Globe Conferva, or Moor Balls. 



Conjerva mgagrojyiLa^ Liiin. - t i i 



Tliis extraordinary production varies in diameter from half 

 an inch to two and a-quarter inches, forming a compact green 

 ball, which is said, in E. Bot. to be sometimes used for wiping 

 pens upon. It was employed by Dr. Gall, in France, as an an- 

 thelmintic, and in scrofulous diseases. Merat & De L., Diet, de 

 Mat. Mt'd. ii. 383 ; Journ. de Pharm. ix. 423. 



Conferva hulhosa. 



DilleniuSj in 1741, said that this conferva, properly collected 



