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ported to tlic olher parts of America^ and to 

 Europe. This plant is a species of tlie centaury, 

 and oreaily resembles the common kind, but it 

 dili'ers from it in having a rounder stalk, a less 

 librons leaf, and branches opposed to each other 

 in i)airs [)hiced almost horizontally. Its name 

 in the Chilian signifies the herb for curing the 

 pleurisy, in ^^hicll complaint it is found very 

 efiicacious ; it is also consid^i'ed as nmc^'itive, 

 dissolvent, worm-destroying, an excellent febri- 

 fuge, and a specific for the sore throat.* The 

 infusion of it is extremely bitter, and in its smell 

 resci bles tlie balsam of Peru. 



The Tirax:ira (gnapliaiium viravira) is a spt;- 

 cies of houscleek very aromatic ; it is recom- 

 meiidcd in intermitting fevers ; the infusion is 

 an excellent sudorillc, atid the Chilians make 



* This plant is exlrojiicly bitter; an infusion of it is 

 aperient atxl siidorilic ; it stron!j;l!icus the stouiaoh, destroys 

 worms, fnvjuonliv ('ures iiiterniiluiig fevers, and is very ser- 

 vi(t:iib!e in rlieumiitir complaints. FcuilU, \ol. ii. 



The cacheiihdiuen, or thecanchalamia,\vliich is called cahen- 

 hif;ua in Chili, is very similar in its apijearance to the smaller 

 European cenhmrv, aUhoiigii not ^o liii^lu A decoction of it 

 iu warm water, in the manner of tea, is considered an excel- 

 lent jHirifier of the hinuvl, Tliis j)lant is hii^hly c< lebrated in 

 Ciiili, t'lniu V. licr.ce il i, evpoiti'd tooHurpaifs, as a fehiifui::e. 

 1 liiiuk it pret'c'iible to the European (ei.iyiiry, and ii is consi- 

 dered as very ethcacious iu co'.n-,>Uiia(.s of the throat. Per- 

 nellfi's ^'oijnp;:, \o\. i. 



