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THE UNIVERSAL HERBAL; 



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small, obtuse ; male Howers at the ends of the branches, in 

 a conical aniciit; and the fruit single from the a\ils below 

 them, on the same branch ; berries large, oval, brown. Pallas 

 says it is difficult to distinguish it from the Savin ; that the 

 bruised leaves have the same smell ; and that the principal 

 difference consists in the greater thickness of the shoots, and 

 iu the leaflets being acute and less clustered. He says the 

 leaves are never in threes with them. Native of the south 

 of France, the Levant, and Siberia. This is the species from 

 which the gum resin, called Olibanum, is obtained ; it has a 

 strong smell, and a somewhat bitterish and pungent taste. 

 Though not the same substance as is sold by the <A>ove name 

 in the shops, it is supposed to have been the incense used 

 by the ancients in their religious ceremonies, and has been 

 adopted by the Roman Catholics in their churches, for similar 

 uses. As a medicine, it has chiefly been used in disorders 

 of the head and breast, and in heemoptoes, and alvine and 

 uterine fluxes, from a scruple to the amount of a drachm or 

 more each dose. It has also been employed in plasters, and 

 us an ingredient in various pills. 



11. Juniperus Drupacea. Leaves in threes, spreading, 

 acute, three times shorter than the drupe ; nut three-celled. 

 Stem frutescent, erect, branched; branches spreading; 

 brauchlets three-sided. Native of Mount Cassius. 



12. Juniperus Daurica; Siberian Juniper. Leaves oppo- 

 site, acute, imbricate, decurrent, spreading, awl-shaped. This 

 is usually shrubby, with the stems lying prostrate on the 

 rocks, the principal ones often the thickness of the human 

 arm; branches thickish, testaceous; shoots green, dichoto- 

 mous. Native of Siberia. 



Jupiter's Beard. See Anthyllis. 



Jassieua; (Tree Primrose) a genus of the class Decandria, 

 order Monogynia. GENERIC CHARACTER. Calix : peri- 

 anth five-cleft, superior, small ; leaflets ovate, acute, perma- 

 nent. Corolla: petals five, roundish, spreading, sessile. Sta- 

 mina: filament* ten, filiform, very short; anlhene roundish. 

 Pistil: germen oblong, inferior; style filiform ; stigmaheaded, 

 flat, marked with five streaks. Pericarp : capsule oblong, 

 crowned, five-celled, gaping at the corners. Seeds : very 

 many, disposed in rows. ESSENTIAL CHARACTER. Calix : 

 four or five parted, superior. Petals : four or five. Capsule: 

 four or five celled, oblong, gaping at the corners. Seeds . 



numerous, minute. The species are, 



1. Jussieua Repens; Creeping Jussieua. Creeping: flow- 

 ers fi ve-petalled, ten-stamined ; leaves ovate-oblong. Roots 

 simple, filiform, short ; stem branching, creeping ; branches 

 somewhat succulent, round, smooth; leaves scattered, small 

 entire, very smooth. The flowers are small and yellow 

 There is a variety with herbaceous, ascending, simple, ever 

 stems. They flower in spring. Native of moist watery places 

 in Jamaica ; where, Brown says, it is frequent in our low 

 lands about Plantain-garden river. This, with all the plants 

 of the genus, should be sown early in the spring, in pots 

 filled with a soft loamy soil, and plunged into a moderate 

 hot-bed ; but as the seeds often lie a whole year in the ground 

 before they vegetate, the earth must be kept moist, and the 

 glasses of the hot-bed shaded in the heat of the day, by which 

 means their vegetation will be hastened. When the plants 

 come up, and are fit to remove, they should be each plantec 

 into a small separate pot filled with light loamy earth, and 

 plunged into a hot-bed of tanner's bark, where they should 

 be shaded from the sun till they have taken new root, then 

 have free air admitted to them every day, in proportion to 

 the warmth of the season : water should be frequently given 

 but in small quantities. When the roots have filled these 

 mall pots, the plants should be removed into others a size 



arger, and if too tall to stand under the frames of the hot- 

 >ed, must be placed in the bark-stove, where they may remain 

 to flower and perfect their seeds : for when the plants rise 

 early in the spring, and are brought forward in hot-beds, all 

 the sorts will flower, and perfect their seeds in the same year; 

 which is better than to have them to keep through the winter. 



2. Jussieua Tenellii. Smooth: flowers five-petalled, sub- 

 sessile; leaves opposite, linear-lanceolate, quite entire. 

 Native of Java. 



3. Jussieua Peruviana. Upright : flowers five-petalled ; 

 peduncles leafy. Native of Lima. 



4. Jussieua Pubescens ; Hairy Jussieua. Upright, villose : 

 flowers five-petalled, ten-stamined, sessile. Stem usually 

 brown, strong, four or five feet high, having several hairy, 

 red, angular branches ; this is set on every side with long, 

 narrow, hairy-nerved leaves ; flowers large, yellow. -Native 

 of Jamaica. 



5. Jussieua Suffruticosa ; Shrubby Jussieua. Upright, 

 villose: flowers four-petalled, eight-stamined, peduncled. It 

 rises with a shrubby stalk three feet high, and sends out 

 several side-branches ; petals yellow. Native of India. 



6. Jussieua Erecta ; Upright or Red-stalked Jussieiut. 

 Upright, smooth: flowers four-petalled, eight-stamined, ses- 

 sile. Root annual ; stem from two to four feet high, herba- 

 ceous, very much branched, four-cornered, smooth, reddish. 

 Flowers abundant, yellow, small. It is a vernal marsh-plant, 

 native of Jamaica, and of the other West India Islands; also 

 of the American continent; and of Ceylon, Java, and Japan. 



2. Jussieua Inclinata. Upright, smooth : flowers four- 

 petalled, eight-stamined, peduncled. Stem simple, round, 

 thick, porous, watery, rooting at the lower joints; peduncles 

 one-flowered. Annual. Native of the marshes of Surinam. 



8. Jussieua Octovalvis. Upright: flowers four-petalled, 

 eight-stamined, peduncled ; capsules many-valvrd ; leaves 

 lanceolate, acuminate'. Flowers on short peduncles, larire, 

 yellow ; seeds very many, roundish. Native of South Ame- 

 rica and the West Indies, in marshy watery places. 



9. Jussieua Hirta. Upright, hirsute; flowers four-petalled, 

 eight-stamined; leaves ovate, acuminate, rough-haired under- 

 neath. A shrubby plant, with a hispid stem ; branches hispid, 

 alternate. Native of South America and Jamaica. 



10. Jussieua Onagra. Upright, smooth, branching: flow- 

 ers four-petalled, eight-stamined, sessile ; leaves lanceolate. 

 Flowers small, yellow. Native of South America. 



11. Jussieua Hirsuta. Upright, hirsute, simple: flowers 

 five-petalled, ten-stamined, sessile; leaves lanceolate. Stalks 

 red, three feet high, hairy, and channelled ; petals yellow. 

 Native of La V'era Cruz. 



12. Jussieua Grandiflora. Leaves very entire ; lower leaves 

 spathulate; upper leaves lanceolate ;" flowers decandrous, 

 large, and yellow; peduncles and calices villose. Roots 

 creeping. Found in the swamps of Virginia and Carolina, 

 about the Dismal Swamp. 



13. Jussieua Subacaulis. Leaves linear-lanceolate ; flow- 

 ers solitary, octandrous, pedunculuted, small, and yellow; 

 filamcnta alternate, very short; petals obovate. Found by 

 Lewis on the banks of the Missouri. 



Juslicia ; a genus of the class Diandria, order Monogynia. 

 GENERIC CHARACTER. Calix : perianth one-leafed, very 

 small, five-parted, acute, upright, narrow. Corolla: one- 

 petalled, ringent; tubegibbose; border two-lipped; lip supe- 

 rior, oblong, emarginate ; lip inferior, of (he same length, 

 reflex, trilid. Stamina : filamenta two. awl-shaped, hid under 

 the upper lip ; antherse upright, bifid at the base. Pixti/ . 

 germen top-shaped; style filiform, length and situation oi' 

 the stamina; stigma simple. ' Pericarp: capsule oblong, 



