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anatropous or amphitropous; s¢y/e single and undivided; s&gma usually entire, 
sometimes 2-lobed or 2-lipped. rwzt generally capsular, 2-celled. Seeds small, 
rarely winged ; eméryo usually small and straight; a/éumen copious, sarcous. 
Beside the six genera represented in this work, we have provings of two im- 
portant members of this Order, viz.: the European Fox-glove (Digitalis purpurea, 
Linn.), remarkable for its accumulative power in the system, and its action upon 
the heart; and the European Hedge Hyssop (Graélola officinalis, Linn.), whose 
active principle so nearly resembles that of Veratrum. 
The following species are more or less noted in medical literature as secondary 
plants: the tropical Indian anti-rheumatic Flerpestes Monniera, H.B.K.; the 
Peruvian tonic and febrifuge Zumpu (Culceolaria trifida, Vahl.), and emetic and 
purgative C. prmnata, Linn.; the Guayanian Bitter Blain (Vandelha diffusa, Linn.), 
highly valued by the natives as an emetic and purgative in malignant fever and 
dysentery; and the Malabar specific for gonorrhoea, Zorenia Asiatica, Linn. 
Several other species of Digitalis are said to possess the full action of D. purpu- 
rea, among which the following are prominent: The Swiss Digitalis ambigua, 
Murr.; the Levantine D, orientalis, Lam.; the German D. purpurascens, Roth.: and 
the Italian D. ferruginea, Linn. The European Water-Betony (Scrophularia 
aquatica, Linn.) is noted in France as the herbe du siége, from its having been the 
sole support at one time of the garrison of Rochelle during the celebrated siege 
by Cardinal Richelieu in 1628. 
History and Habitat.—The common Mullein is a native of the Isle of 
Thapsos, now found in most parts of Europe. In North America it has become 
thoroughly naturalized, principally though, in the Eastern United States, where 
it frequents waste grounds and dry fields. It flowers throughout the summer 
months, its fruit being fully ripe in October, 
Verbascum has been know 
@A6uos of Hippocrates and othe 
though Sibthorp states that it is 
n as a medical plant from ancient times. The 
t ancient writers is supposed to be this species, 
the male Aevxy p2duos ; Sprengel judges that the 
emale is the mullein and the male the V. undulatum.®. 
The principal use of this herb in 
