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l.l PHOKBI \< I. 1. 





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starch) root of the Manihot l wliieh »i 



wholesome nutritious t I when i I 



tod eatable, but the embryo itself is acrid and dang 



Caoutchouc, that most i ;uous of all sul by the m 



famili< -, which may I"- almost said t" have L'i\' n a ui m an i 

 become an indispensable necessar) ol lif< : it exists in \ 



also the produc I b| 



The properties "t thia Ordi r are bo important, Uutt tlio object 

 unfulfilled if I 'li'l not, in addition t<> the leral view, add a 



the qualities "i the most remarkable species named bj writ 



Among milking species, the ti r~t to be noticed are the < actus-shape 1 kinds, inhal 



Urica chiefly, but also found in In 

 It is .said thai Km_' .Jin i 

 Euphorbia in Barbary, and 

 after his phy sician, who wa 

 to Musa. The phut ol K _• .1 uba is 

 •■> Euphorbia officii] . 

 .,* a many-angled succulent 6] 

 growing in tufts armed with d 

 spines, and now found in the 

 of Africa ; others, bowi 

 in have bei n E. antiquorum, a I 

 gular branching Bpecies wb 

 are sinuous and spiny, and which ap 

 pears to be widely dispersed thi 

 Africa. The gum resin Euphorbiuni, 

 now found in our shops, an 



n, i- partly gathered in ' 

 from those iv<> species, and partly in 

 the Cai 



tlnws from the wounded stems, and is collected in leather bags. It is an extra 

 inflammable Bubstance, producing nflammation of the nostrils, if those who \»>\\- 



der it 'i>. not guard themselves from it- dust : according to chemists, it c 

 myricine, phyteumacolla, and various Baits. In India it i- mixed with the "il expr 

 from the - 3 mamum orientale, and used externally in rheumatic afl nter- 



nally in case- of obstinate constipation. Orfila regards it as a poison. It is little us 

 Euro] i Aral- make n]> \ i. .1. nt diuretic pills, by rubbing overthe ju 



quorum with flour; yet their camels will eat the branches oi die plant whei 

 The juice of K. heptagona, virosa, and cereiformis, African Bpecies, furnishes the Kilii.<- 

 pians, and I'., cotinifoha, the wild Brazilians, with a mortal poison for their am 

 of the leavi - oi Euphorbia nereifolia i-. prescribed by the native practitiom rs ol 1 

 intemaily a- a purge an.l deobstruent, and externally, mixed with M 



mtracted limb a- are induced by ill-treated rheumatic . ' The 1 



have, no doubt, a diuretic quality. E. tribuloides, one of the l< ast of thi I 

 Bpecies, is regarded as a diaphoretic in the Canaries, where it grows wild. Ol th 

 Euphorbias great numbers have been found t" pos* sa a milk with p 

 qualities. Endlicher mentions E. Esula (Wolfsmilch of the Gen 

 amygdaloides, whose roots have been the basis of Borneo 

 Helioscopia, our commonest weed, iTi0vpa\os and i)\. 

 ■xt*\os ol Hippocrates), palustris, pilosa, Chamaesyce, P< pi is. (th< - 

 and TTtirAis <•! Dioscorides), spinoea (htoifx U t,) dendroi 



Aleppica, and Apios ; all plants having more or less reputal In 



America there are also employed for the Bame pur 

 papillosa in Brazil, a Bpecies ant t" produce dangerous superpui 

 teiia or 1 echetres ; launfolia in Peru ; portulacoidi - in Chili ; and I 

 fresh acrid juice of the latter ie used as a vesicatory ; it iscomn 



dency, and make> an excellent hedge, which ma) be formed with \ 



trench must be dug where it is intended t" be, at the 1 ■ 

 this, cuttings being placed, and the earth i 

 without further tr tuble. No cattle «ill touch the leavi -, an i 

 tot rable fence. 



Among syphilitic remedies are Euphorbia parviflora an 1 i 

 in America. E. hiberna als . the introduction 



min i ste r ed in England against venereal aft 

 such purposes to this 



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