252 WILD FLOWERS. 



The use of madder as a pigment, more especially 

 in miniature, or other flesh painting, is well known, 

 but it was only so lately as in the year 1804, that 

 Sir H. C. Englefield claimed, and obtained, the medal 

 of the " Society for Encouraging the Arts/' for the 

 discovery of its application to this purpose.* 



In the "Edinburgh Pharmacopoeia "madder is in- 

 dicated as an ingredient in a decoction for the cure 

 of jaundice, and it was formerly much valued as an 

 emmenagogue, but it is now rarely employed medi- 

 cinally. 



* See Burnett's "Encyclopaedia of Ornamental Plants," &c. 



