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each day and weighed carefully each morning before being 
heated. The greatest increase was observed on the second 
day, but the weight augmented daily in diminishing amounts 
until the fifteenth day, when it was found to have gained altoge- 
ther 7:2 per cent. The oil was still unctuous and transparent and 
- flowed from the vessel when inverted. The oil was heated to 
over 250° on three occasions, but this did not appear to affect 
its limpid character. 
Glossocardia linearifolia, Cass., Wight Ic.,t. 1110, 
Syn.—G. Bosvallea, a plant of Central India and the Deccan, 
is known in Marathi by the name of Phatar-suva, which means 
Rock anethum. In the Poona and Sholapore districts it is 
called Pitsa-paépada, a name also given to Fumaria as well as 
to several Acanthaceous plants. It is not sold in the Bombay 
shops, but is the Pitta-papada of the Poona druggists, and 
according to Dalzell and Gibson is much used im female com- 
plaints, the nature of which they do not specify. «G. lineart- 
folia is « small annual, with many stems, diffuse ; leaves alter- 
nate, much divided, linear at the base; heads of flowers 
solitary, yellow, on short naked peduncles. It has a bitter — 
te, and an odour of fennel, and is used as an emmenagogue. 
ACHILLEA MILLEFOLIUM, Linn. ‘A 
Fig.— Woodville, t. 15; Reich. Tc. Fl. Germ., avi. t. 1026; 
Bentl. and Trim, 153. Yarrow, Nose-bleed (Eng.), Herbe aux 
Charpentiers, Millefeuille (Fr. 2 
Hab.—Western Himalaya. Cultivated in gardens. 
Vernacular.—Biranjasif (Ind. Bazars). 
History, Uses, &c,—Differentspecies of Achillea have 
been used medicinally from a very early date, Dioscorides 
(iv., 34) mentions dyAdcov as a plant which was used as an 
astringent and emmenagogue. According to Pliny the generi 
name was given to these plants becanse Achillea was: fone 
‘to use them as a vulnerary, he says :-—“ In 
