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The payco (licrniaria pnyco*) by ivliicli name 

 it is known in many modern medical works,, is 

 also denominated tea of the third species^, 

 although it appertains to the g-enns of herniaria. 

 It puts forth several trailing- shoots^ coveied with 

 small oval leaves^ notched like a saw, and at- 

 tached to the stalk without a petiole. The 

 flowers have many stamina, and are very nu- 

 merous ; the seed is enclosed in a 'pherical cap- 

 sule ; the colour of the plant is a light green, 

 and its smell is something like that of a rotten 

 lime. As a medicine it promotes digestion, is 

 excellent in corapIaiLits of the stomach, and very 

 useful in the pleurisy. f 



The quinchamcJi ( quinchamalium Chilense). 

 As this plant forms a new genus, I have retained 

 the name bv which it is known in the country ; 

 it produces a great number of stalks of nine 

 iiiches in height, with alternate leaves similar to 

 those of the linaria aurea tragi ; the flowers are 



* All the plants of the genus herniaria that are known, and 

 those that iiave an atlinily to theui, as the ilecebrum, the 

 achyrautt's, kc. have tlu ir leaves entire, without beini: jiiirrred 

 or indented j of cour.-e this instance presents an exception 

 ix':\n tiic gevicral rule. Fr. Trans. 



t TiV-' tiayco is a pl;iht of ndddlinj; hei^iht,, uhn=G leaves are 

 a little (!> iitutr;!, and have a sniel! like a rotten lime; a decoc- 

 tion of them an- sudoriiie, and are good in jden-nfic complaints. 

 Tlii re i. li'-. >.;- a <jreat cpiantity ot [.'astard rosemary, wliich 

 ^;io^iac^^ the >unie citect:-. Fraxicrs VoyngCj vol. i. 



