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for colds in the head, and its seeds roasted are said 

 to be an excellent substitute for coffee, to which 

 tribe of plants it belongs. In Sweden it is con- 

 sidered worth while to collect the seeds for this pur- 

 pose, and in France the galium. tribe are employed 

 in cases of epilepsy ; and the little town of Tain, in 

 the department of Drome, has been rendered famous 

 by M. Larnage from his having effected wonderful 

 cures by means of the galium, which the French 

 call G. blanc* and which they use instead of sper- 

 maceti in the ointments applied after a blister has 

 been raised. 



* Probably G. saxatile. 



