ORD. XXVI. Multisiliquee. 487 
Epileptics at the Edinburgh Infirmary, declares that one received 
a temporary advantage from its use. 
Of the good effects of this plant in other disorders we find no 
anstances recorded. 
* See Clinical Experiments, &c. p. 209. 
RUTA GRAVEOLENS. COMMON RUE. 
iinaciilila 
SYNONYAA, Ruta. Pharm. Lond. & Edinb. Ruta hortensis. 
Gerard. Emac. p. 1255. Ruta hortensis major. Park. Theat. p. 
132. Ruta sativa vel hortensis, Bauh. Hist. ili. p.197. Ruta 
hortensis latifolia. Bauh. Pin. p. 336. aii. Hist. p. 874. 
Ruta foliis duplicato-pinnatis, lobulis ovatis. Hal. Stirp. Helv. 
No.gl003. Porn seu Meyau Gree. 
Class Decandria. Ord. Monogynia. Lin. Gen. Plant. 523. _ 
Ziss.Gen. Ch. Cal. 5-partitus. Petala concava. Receptac. punctis 
melliferisdecemcinctum, Caps lobata. Quinta pars numert 
in quibusdam excluditur. 
Sp. Ch. R. foliis decompositis, floribus lateralibus quadrifidis, 
THE root sends forth several shrubby stalks, which towards the 
bottom are strong, woody, and covered with rough, grey, striated 
bark; the upper or young branches are smooth, and of a pale 
green colour: the leaves are compound, consisting of double sets 
of irregular pinnaw, which are minutely notched or crenulated, 
of an obversely oval shape, and of a glaucous or bluish green 
colour: the flowers are numerous, and produced in a branched 
corymbus on subdividing peduncles: the calyx commonly divides 
into four and sometimes into five pointed leaves; the corolla con- 
