GLOSSARY. 



parted, while pinnate is a compound 

 of distinct leatets. 



Pith. Spongy substance in the centre 

 of stems and roots. Medulla. 



Potash, a fixed alkali from the ashes 

 of plants having a me talk base, pot- 

 assium. 



Proximate, next, near, intimate. 



Pratensis. Growing in meadow land. 



Pulp. Juicy, cellular substance of ber- 

 ries and other fruits. 



Pungent. Sharp, acrid, piercing. 



Putrescent, rotten, putrid, decaying. 



Rationale. Reason, conclusion. 



Refrigerants. From refrigero, to cool. 

 Cooling medicines or drinks. 



Residuum. What is lett after experi- 

 ment or distribution. 



Resolvent. Having the power to dis- 

 solve or analyze. 



Regimen, diet in sickness. 



Rubefddent. Substances which, ap- 

 plied to the skin, produce redness 

 without blistering. 



Sfiltiferous . Bearing or producing salt 



Salts, in chemistry, substances com- 

 posed of an acid and a base, as chlor. 

 ide of sodium, (common salt); when 

 salts do not color infusions of litmus, 

 etc., they are neutral salts, when 

 they do, they are acidulous ; and 

 super or bi denotes the excess of 

 acid, and when the acid is dificient 

 or the alkaline base predominates, 

 sub is added. There are great num- 

 bers of these salts. 



Saline, partaking of salt, belonging 

 to places where salt is found. 



Saccharine, partaking of or having the 

 quality of sugar. 



Sedative. Assuaging, composing, di- 

 minishing the natural energy. 



Segment. Part or principal division 

 of a leaf, calyx, or corolla. 



Sepal. Leaves or divisions of the calyx. 



Sessile. Sitting down ; placed imme- 

 diately on the main stem without a 

 foot-s ; alk. 



Setaceous. Bristle-form. Setose. Cov- 

 ered with bristles. 



Shrub. Plant with a woody stem, 

 branching nearer the ground than 

 a tree and smaller. 



Silique. A long pod or seed-vessel of 



two valves, having the seed attached 

 to the two edges alternately. 



Soluble, capable of being dissolved in 

 liquids, etc. 



Soporific. Causing sleep. 



Spindle-shaped. Thick at top, gradu- 

 ally tapering, fusiform. 



Spine. A thorn or sharp process grow- 

 ing from the wood. Spinescent. 

 Bearing spines or thorns. Spinosus. 

 Thorny. 



Spurred-rye. A morbid swelling of 

 the seed, of a black or dark color, 

 sometimes called ergot ; the black 

 is called malignant ergot. Grain in 

 low, moist ground, or new land, is 

 most subject to it. 



Striate. Marked with fine parallel 

 lines. 



Stamen The part of the flower on 

 which the artificial classes are 

 founded. 



Stipe. The stem of a fern, or fungus, 

 also the stem of the down of seeds, 

 as in the dandelion. 



Succulent. Juicy ; also a pulpy leaf, 

 juicy or not. 



Sucker. A shoot from the root by 

 which the plant may be propagated. 



Supuration. The formation of pus or 

 morbid matter in abscesses, sores, 

 etc. 



Sudorific. Promoting or causing 



Tannin. An astringent principle of 

 plants, etc. 



Topical. Local, confined to a place. 



Tonic. From tono to strengthen. 

 Medicines which increase the tone 

 of the muscular fibre. 



Torrid. Very hot, parched. 



Trituration. Rubbing to powder, pul- 

 verizing. 



Ultimate. Last, final. 



Umbel. A kind of inflorescence in 

 which the flower-stalks diverge from 

 a centre, like the sticks of an um- 

 brella. Umbelliferous. Bearing um- 

 bels. 



Volatile. Flying off, evaporating, dis- 

 tinguished t'rorcifixed or permanent. 



Vermifuge. A medicine for the cure 

 of worms. 



