40 ERTTHEA. 



In tlie form of a weak tea it is taken to purify tlie blood; 

 it allays inflammation, and applied as a wash or poultice is 

 used with beneficial results for rheumatism. 



.That little roadside vagrant known to science as Matricaria 

 discoidea, and in the unwritten pharmacopoeia of Spanish 

 households as Manzanilla, is used very extensively, especially 

 among children, for stomach and bowel complaints. Taken 

 as a tea it is said to relieve vomiting, colic, cholera morbus 

 and other gastro-intestinal disorders. 



The shy little Erythrcea Douglasii is known among the 

 natives as Canchalagiia; it is very highly prized as a tonic 

 and a blood purifier and is widely and favorably known as a 

 cure for malarial diseases. Whether the assertion is well 

 founded or not I do not know, but I have heard old Spaniards 

 deplore the fact that the Canchalagua is being killed out, 

 and that in wildwood places where it grew in abundance 

 forty years ago it cannot now be found- 



And Sauco, it would be regarded as most shiftless im- 

 providence among Spanish Senoras not to have a bag of 

 Sauco blossoms laid by for the winter colds of the family. 

 Now as Sauco is nothing more nor less than our common, 

 every day Elderberry, Samhiicus glauca, it is as handy a 

 medicine as nature provides. 



A tea made from the blossoms is taken hot, upon retiring, 

 to induce prespiration. The patient is always very carefully 

 cautioned not to drink cold water for some little time after- 

 ward. 



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AN ABBREVIATION IN BOTANIC TECHNIC. 



By O. MiCHENER. 



I HAVE, in the past few years, done a good deal of field 

 work in botany, and collected and prepared for exchange and 

 my own herbarium large numbers of specimens. Naturally 

 I have desired to do this with as little labor as possible, and 

 as I have found that labor-saving ideas in this regard came 



