176 ORD. IX. Stellate. RUBIA “TINCTORUM- 
this decoction was expunged. That some French writers should 
prescribe Madder in a rickety state of the bones, appears a little 
surprising, as the brute animals, to which it was given, especially 
the younger, suffered considerable emaciation and prostration of » 
strength from its effects. Its virtues, as an emmenagogue, rest 
principally on the authority of Dr. Home, who gave from a scruple 
to half a dram of the powder, or two ounces of the decoction, three 
‘or four times a‘day, But this medicine failed with Dr. Cullen, who 
also says, “ 1 know of other practitioners in this country, who, after 
“several ineffectual trials made with it, have now entirely deserted 
its‘use.”” 
Mat. Med. vol. it. p. 39. 
GALIUM APARINE. CLEAVERS, or GOOSE GRASS. 
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SYNONYMA. Aparine. Pharm. Murray. vi, 24. Dale. 133. 
-Rutty. 321. Aparine vulgaris. Bauh. Pin. 334. Aparine. Ger. 
‘Emac.1122. Park. Theat. 567, Ray. Syn. 225. Galium caule 
serrato, foliis senis linearibus lanceolatis serratis, petiolis unifloris. 
Hail. Hist. Stirp. Helo. n. 723. “Galium Aparine. Scop. Fl. 
Carn. n. 157. Hudson. Flor. Ang. 57. Withering. Bot. Arr. 
157. Lightfoot. Flor. Smith Brit. 180. Scot. 117. Flor. Dan. 
Icon. 495. Curt. Flor, Lond. 
Tetrandria Monogynia. Lin. Gen. Plant. 125. 
‘Gen. Ch. Cor. 1-petala, plana. Sem. 2, subrotunda. 
Sp. Ch. G. foliis octonis lanceolatis carinatis scabris retrorsum 
aculeatis, geniculis villosis, fructu hispido. 
