Used to intoxicate fish; in powder, to destroy vermi ge . 
the brewers and ublicans to render their beer ae 
ing. 1 and 2 yield Se 
PICROTOXA, (called also Picrotoxina and Pievotowia, em 
Picrotoxine. glee 
Cabinet specimen, Jeff. Coll. No. 461. Bn ee Gees 
The bitter deleterious proximate principle of the above, 
discoyered by Boullay: he found the fruit to yield— 
1. Fixed oil. 4, Picrotoxine, 
2. Adipocire.’ : 5. Woody fibre. 
3. ¥ellow extractive co- 6. Albumen. 
louring matter. 7. Menispermic acid. 
The ashes contain sulphate and hydrochlorate of po- 
tass, phosphate of lime, silica, and iron, 
Quarries. Inodorous; very bitter; restores blue turnsole 
rubified by acids; scarcely soluble in water, very soluble 
in ether and alcohol; combines with most acids, forming 
bitter salts, sparingly soluble in water. Orfila says, it acts 
on the animal economy like.camphor, .Has net been used 
in. medicine—therefore presents.an untouched theme for 
the ingenuity of some candidate for graduation. 
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No. 382.—MENYANTHES TRIFOLIATA. Buck-bean- 
—Marsh Trefoil. kaa 
Cabinet specimen, Jeff. Coll. No. 462—figure of the plant, ~ 
No. 463. : 
Orricrxat, Menyanthes. L. Mehianthis trifoliata folia. E. 
” Trifolium paludosum. D, The leaves of Buck bean. Me- 
nyanthes trifoliata radix. U.S. The root of Buck-bean. 
Indigenous; grows in bogs, in Jer Y city. Leaves 
nauseous, intensely bitter; are use: ae 
stitute for hops, in brewing beer. © 
MepicaL PrRorerties AND Uses. Tonic, i se 
gative. Used in intermittents, rheumatism, gouty alfec. = 
s tions, kc. Dose of dried leaves, in powder, )j to 3j—of 
the infusion, made with 3ss of the dried leaves and Oss 
boiling water, £5j to f31ss, three or four times a day. I 
_know nothing Ht virtues of the root, whieh is made 
officinal in the Phar. U.S. 2 
diuretic, and. fai 
No. 383.—Mezerer Cortex. Officinal Mezereum, 
' See No. 219. Bisa 
Under which it should. have: been. stated, that the root of 
Daphne Gnidium (Cab. spec. Jeff. Coll. No. 464.) © ed 
Thymelea and Spurge flax, is vesicatory like Mezereum., 
