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auvres.” . This superstition, says Chéruel, was still current in 
e 18th century among the peasantry of France. Dr. Pereira 
nentions his having seen a rude representation of a human figure 
ashioned out of the rootof Bryonta dioica, exhibited at an herb- 
op in England as a Mandrake. The Arabs call the mandrake 
own in Syria as Shammdém and in Persia as Dastambuyeh, 
*perfuming the hands,” the Hucumis Dudaim of Linnzus, and 
St supposed to be the Dudaim or “love apple” of Gen. xxx. 14, In 
ja the mandrake is known as Mardumgyah and Sagshikan. 
hometan medical writers, under the name of Yebruj, Yebruh 
~ebrnj-cl-sanam, popsidiage with slight modifications the 
gthe plant. Haji Zein-el-Attarstates 
on the Sopders of the Garmasir of Shiraz, near the fort of 
hryari, mandrake root was in his time (A. D. 1368) collected 
the assistance of dogs, and was known as Sagkand (Sag, 
Og: end kandan, Be dig ). = cases of poisoning by it he 
I 1 t tion of aromatics in milk, 
concludes by saying that it is beyond the province of medi- 
to discuss its use as a love-philtre. Mandrake roots, though 
well-known in India, are occasionally offered for sale as a 
m ; the narcotic properties of the plant do not appear to be 
wn to the natives. In China the plant is said to be much 
as an anesthetic, and in Europe the leaves are still some- 
used as as a local application to tumours. Gnuibourt 
“Tes feuilles fort partie du baume tranquille (Hlwolé 
ées composé). 
ription.— Mandragora is a perennial plant, ay: a 
<, fusiform, light brown root, which often bifurcates; 
are all radical, petioled and humifuse, broad, acute, 
nd nlating edges; flowers numerous, on peduncles shorter 
e leaves ; fruit a yellow berry, which in M. vernalis (male 
) is round and the size of a crab-apple, whilst in M. 
(female mandrake) it is ovoid and rather smaller. 
of < caeed aie are also narrower and smaller 
male mandrake. The: ead when 
CaF odour. 
