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examined separately yielded to ether 24 per cent. of brown fat, 
melting at 29°C. ‘This fat on saponification yields some 
“fragrant volatile fatty acid; a mixture of insoluble fatty acids 
melting at 41°, soluble in spirit and crystalline; and a neutral, 
rown, fluorescent resin : 
_~ Ne substance like eects was found in the infusion of the 
whole herb. The seeds contained ammonia from the decom- 
‘position of the albuminoids. ‘lhe herb afforded 16°9 per cent., 
a ithe seeds 11°] per cent. of mineral matter. 
ANAGALLIS ARVENSIS, Jann. 
_ » Pig.— Eng. Bot. viti. t. 529; ; eevi, t. 1823. Scarlet Pimper- 
nel (Eng.), Mouron rouge (Fr). 
p sta0.— Many parts of India, Karope, Western Asia. The 
ae. 
Vernacular,— Jonk-miri, Jainghani (Hind.). 
; History, Uses, &c,— Dioscorides describes two kinds 
avayadkis, the male with red flowers, and the female with blue 
flowers. According to him the herb‘has lenitive properties, 
and is used to subdue inflammation, to assist in the extraction 
of thorns from the flesh, and in the cure of sores. The juice 
administered through the nostrils is said to remove pituitous 
matters from the head and relieve toothache ; mixed with honey 
‘it removes films from the eyes and improves the sight. Given 
with wine, it was thought to be an antidote for the poison of 
the Viper ; it was also prescribed to relieve pain in the kidneys 
. od liver, and to promote the dispersion of dropsical swellings. 
_ The female plant was supposed to care prolapsus ani and the — 
@ plant to incite that disease. Pliny (25, 92) speaks of the 
> the e Arabian and Persian physicians 
