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be intermitted for a day or two, and then renewed till a perfect cure 
is effected. During the use of this medicine, a proper regimen is 
to be enjoined, and the ulcers are also to be frequently washed 
with the decoction, or if deep and foul, to be sprinkled with the 
powder of the inner bark of the New Jersey Tea-tree (Ceanothus 
Americanus.) Although the plant thus used is said to cure the 
disease in a very short time, yet we donot find that the antisyphilitie 
powers of the Lobelia have been confirmed by any instances of 
European practice. 
VIOLA ODORATA. SWEET VIOLET. 
SYNONYMA. Viola. Pharm. Lond. & Edinb. Viola martia 
purpurea, flore simplice odoro. Bauh. Pin. p. 199. J. Bauh, 
Hist. ii. p. 542. Rait Hist. p. 1049. Synop. 364. Viola nigra 
sive purpurea. Gerard. Emac. p. 550. Viola simplex martia. 
Park. Parad. p. 282. Viola acaulis stolonifera, foliis cordatis. 
Hail. Stirp. Helv. n. 558. Viola odorata acaulis, foliis cordatis, 
stolonibus reptantibus, bractzis supra medium pedunculi. Curtis. 
Flor, Lond. 
Varietates sunt, 
« Viola martia purpurea, flore simplice odoro. C. Bauh.l. c.p. 199. 
: Purple Flowered Sweet Violet, 
€ Viola martia alba. C. Bauh.l. c. p. 199. 
White Flowered Sweet Violet. 
y Viola martia multiplici flore. C. Bauh, 1. c. p: 199. 
Double Flowered Sweet Violet.* 
Class Syngenesia. Ord. Monogamia. Lin. Gen. Plant. 1007. 
* Vide Aiton’s Hort, Kew. 
