DRUGS, 



drakes having the name of Anthropomorphos" is the habit of quacks 

 giving the roots of various plants the fashion of the human body to 

 impose them on silly women under the name of Mandrakes or Hands of 

 Glory. The belief in mandrake as a love philter (hence Venus was often 

 styled Mandragorites) is an absurd superstition ; and yet a nearly allied 

 plant, the Jarbarosa, has the same reputation in South America ! (Lind- 

 ley.) Persian writers describe the Gensing of China as a Mandrake. 

 Cucumis Dudaim, W., is the Apple-shaped Cucumber of the Levant. 



N. O. 161. LABIATE. LABIATES. 

 Anisomeles malabarica. R. Br. 



Linn. Syst. Didynamia Gymnospermia. 



Vernacular. Bootan-kooshum, Sans. Gaozuban, By. Pemayrutie> 

 Tarn. Moga-beerakoo, Mabheri t China-ranabheri, Tel. 



Habitat. India. 

 Remarks. For Gaozubansee also N. O. 120. 



Dracocephalum royleanum. Royle? 



Linn. Syst. Didynamia Gymnospermia. 



The seed. 



Vernacular. Tukm balungoo, Balungoo, Hind. 



Habitat, Cultivated widely in northern India. 



Hyssopus Officinalis. W. Common Hyssop. 



Linn. Syst. Didynamia Gymnospermia. 



The herb. 



Vernacular. Zoofce yeabus t Ushnaz-daoud, Arab. 



Habitat. South Europe ; Asia Minor. 



Remarks. Although there is much dispute on the subject, this is proba- 

 bly the Esob so often mentioned in the Scriptures : strong as the argu- 

 ments for Capparis cegyptiaca, may be. It cannot, however, be the hyssop 

 of 1 Kings iv., ver. 33, where, recording the learning of Solomon, it says 

 " and he treated about trees, from the cedar that is in Lebanon unto the 

 hyssop that cometh out of the wall" The writer would have us under- 

 stand that the largest and the smallest plants were known to Solomon, and 

 his antithesis, as well as the expression "hyssop that cometh out of the 

 wall," point to some moss or lichen, probably the Gymnostomum fasiculare, 

 a moss very common in the Holy Land, and as minute as that (Dicranum 

 bryoides) which revived hope in Mungo Park in the deserts of Africa. 

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