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troublesome cough which accompanied the last-mentioned com- 
plaint. It has since then been employed in allopathic medicine 
as an anodyne, soporific, antispasmodic, and sedative. In 
laryngismus stridulus, and convulsions in children (Hufeland, 
Collin, Marshall Hall, etc.) Dysentery (Robert Boyle). In- 
duration of the lymphatic glands (Himly, Sachs, etc.) Febris 
nervosa versatilis (P. Frank). Delirium tremens (Brock, 
Miiller). Dementia and melancholy (Storck, Greding, Fother- 
gill, etc.) Giddiness (Marcellus). Affections of the eyes 
(Philovenes). Ulceration of the iris (Himly). Iritis (Schmidt). 
Scrofulous photophobia ( Wuézer). Amaurosis (Lelle, Molinellt). 
Violent otitis (Zodlus, etc.) Neuralgia of the face (prosopalgia) 
(Harrison). Odontalgia rheumatica (Dirr). Gastralgia (Har- 
rison). Croup (Thribolet). Hooping-cough in second stage 
(Schiffer, Hillary, etc.) Angina pectoris, etc. etc. 
Descriprion.—This plant is biennial, and flowers from June 
to August. ‘The root is spindle-shaped. Stem from one to four 
feet high, upright, round, tough, branched, woolly towards the 
top, very leafy. The Jeaves are alternate, sessile, or stem 
clasping, soft, and pliant, somewhat egg-shaped, sinuated, with 
sharp lobes, downy, and viscid, exhaling a powerful and oppres- 
sive odour, like all the rest of the plant. F/owers numerous, 
from the bosoms of the crowded upper leaves, almost entirely 
sessile. Calyz a little distended on the under side, woolly at 
the base, the tubular part enlarging and enclosing the seed- 
vessel. Corolla of a pale, yellowish-brown, beautifully netted 
with purple veins, and a dark purple eye or base. Félaments 
white. -Anthers and style of a fine, deep purple. Ca in 
two rows, all turned to one side, enclosed in the permanent 
calyx, and forming a kind of unilateral, leafy spike. Each cap- 
sule contains a great number of small seeds, which find egress 
by the rounded convex top coming off like the lid of a box. 
The plant, in the first year of its duration, has no stem. The 
leaves are all radical, each having a footstalk or pedicle. The 
leaves are woolly, but possess little of the odour of the mature 
