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same way the yellow-juiced Celandine (Chelidonium major ) was thought especially 
useful in jaundice ; the knotted figwort (Scrofularia nodosa) for scrofulous swel- 
lings; the mottled-leaved lungwort (Pulmonaria officinalis) for diseases of the 
lung; the scarlet poppy (Papaver rubrum.) for fevers and erysipelas ; and so on. 
Tt remained in the British Pharmacopeia up to the commencement of the present 
century, where, in the shape of a powder with marjoram and lavender, it formed 
the active ingredient of a snuff that was used as a powerful derivative for various 
affections of the ears, the eyes, and the head. 
The medical virtues of Asarabacca have been known from remote antiquity. 
It is the ‘‘adagor” of Dioscorides and other ancient authorities. Its generic 
name being derived from the Greek negative, ‘‘a,” and “ sairo” ‘‘orno,” to adorn ; 
“ because,” says Pliny, ‘‘it was never admitted into the ancient coronal wreaths.” 
Tts well-known power leads to the suspicion that in the very few localities in which 
it grows in Great Britain, it has been introduced for medicinal use. It is a very 
rare British plant, and, so far as is known, this Deerfold Forest locality is the only 
one in which it grows wild in this part of England. 
