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considered tonic, diuretic, and aperient ; it has a specific 

 action on the liver, resolving its chronic engorgements 

 when languid, and is used more especially when the de- 

 rangement of the hepatic system and digestive organs are 

 impaired. In chronic inflammation of the liver, or de- 

 ficiency of bile, and dropsical affections, it is used with 

 decided success. The Dandelion is generally used in the 

 form of extract or decoction; by boiling the root (after slicing 

 it) down to one half. 



FAIR-EYE. 



(CALLIOPSIS.) 



Of this family of annual flowering plants, there is a 

 great variety, flowering from June until cut down by the 

 frost. They are natives of this country. Their general 

 appearance is pleasing and showy, being hardy, erect, and 

 branching, rather slender in growth, from one to two feet 

 high ; the flowers yellow, with brown centre. The best 

 of this variety is C. drummondii ; it is of dwarf habit and 

 large flowers, not exhibiting that naked and loose appear- 

 ance so apparent in the stem of other varieties. The whole 

 of the Calliopsis xvill grow in any garden soil, and in bet- 

 ter perfection if the seed be sown in September, as the 

 young plants will survive the winter, and in the early spring 

 can be removed to where they are wanted to flower. In 



