mura GRaveotens. ORD. XXVI. Multisilique. A89 
very little credited, though so highly extolled by Boerhaave. 
According to Bergius it is “ alexiteria, pellens, emmenagoga, 
sudorifera, rubifaciens.” It is doubtless a powerful stimulant, 
and may be considered, like other medicines of the fetid kind, 
to have attenuating, deobstruent, and antispasmodic powers,’ and 
to be more peculiarly adapted to phlegmatic habits, or weak and 
hysterical constitutions, suffering from retarded or obstructed 
secretions. In the London Pharm. Ruta is directed in the form 
of an extract, and it is also an ingredient in the Pulvis e myrrha 
compositus. 
By some it is employed in the way of tea. 
* The opinion formerly entertained of this plant, may be collected from the 
Schola Salernitana, in which its virtues are thus celebrated. c. 37. p. 427, 
Nobilis est ruta, quia lumina reddit acuta; 
Auxilio rute, vir lippe videbis acute; 
Cruda comesta recens, oculos caligine purgat. 
Ruta viris minnit Venerem, mulieribus addit. 
Ruta facit castum, dat lumen, & ingerit astum. 
Cocta & facit ruta de publicibus loca tuta. 
« “ T have no doubt in asserting its antispasm 
Y. il, Pp. 365. 
odic powers.” Cullen M, M. 
Co RR AE 
The following are the remaining medicinal plants of this order which we have 
not thought sufficiently important to require any particular consideration : 
Systematic Names. OrriciNnat. Eneuisu, 
Agquilegia vulgaris Aquilegia Columbine 
Aconitum Anthora Anthora Wholesome Woolf’s-bane 
De!phininm Consolida Consolida regalis Branched Larkspur” 
Nigella sativa Nigella Fennel-flower 
Ranunculus sceleratus R. palustris Marsh Crowfoot 
lammula Flammula Spearwort Crowfoot 
bulbosus . bulbosus Bulbou Crowfoot 
Ficaria Chelidonium minus Pilewort Crowfoot 
Anemone nemorosa Ranunculus albus Wood Anemone 
———— Hepatica Hepatica nobilis Blue Hepatica 
Thalictrum flavum Thalictrum Meadow Rue 
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