0.5 Ex oe of the Coliiges:- Plasters._ 
~The chief « Bere Saale 
~ Oxydi Plumbi semivitriei, or E. Lyth 
Commune, or Diachylon se sated £. Rone 
No. , 244. ERGOT, or Secale - Cornutum, as. see. 
No. 245.—1. Ertceron PuoiLaDELpuicum, 2 Scab- 
HATEROPHYLLUM, § ious. 
2: CanapDeEnsk, Phar. U.S. 
Indigenous diuretic plants. For a full account of 1 and 2, see 
W.P.C. Barton’s Veg. Mat. Med. U.S. Vol. Il.—of 3, see 
Dr. De Puy, Physico-Med. Trans. New-York, Vol. I. 
No, 246.—Eryncium aquaticum. Radix, U.S. 
Button snake-root. 
A good subject for an inaugural dissertation. 
No, 247.—Escutia. Esculine. 
The alkaline proximate principle of No. 31. Discovered by 
M. Carzeroni, and obtained by him by a process similar to 
that for obtaining Cinchonia. It is supposed to contain 
the febrifuge virtues of the horse-chesnut. Has not been 
used as a medicine—therefore is a fit subject for an inau- 
gural dissertation. 
No, 248.—EvuGENIA CARYOPHYLLATA, ( Willd.) The 
~ Clove tree. 
Synonym—Caryoph yllus Aromatica. — 
2.— 
phyllus i et ejus oleum volatile. 
Edin. gn Aromat poe ag olewm essentiale. 
Dub. Bao et oleum vola- 
tile. U.S. The gai wee ac and volatile oil. 
_ Gabinet specimens, Jeff. Coll. No. 275 and No. 276—figure 
of the tree, No. 277. 
A native of the Moluccas—cultivated in Amboyna, Honimoa, i 
Oma, Noussalant, Isle of France, and Dominica. 
ese 
but little of their taste—alcohol and ether take up both. 
‘s , nearly colourless oil, which becomes yellow by 
Agi contains the flavour of cloves, but is milder. The 
‘Qualities of Cloves well known. Water extracts their odour, 
tae 
- Yield, by distillation in water, one-sixth of their weight of — 
