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umbellated, yellow, and tubulous, with a border 

 divided into four parts like the jessamin ; the 

 seed is blacky lenticular^, and enclosed in a sphe- 

 rical capsule, containing three cells. The coun- 

 try people make use of the expressed juice, or 

 the decoction, as a resolutive after falls or 

 bruises, and it is found to be an excellent remedy 

 in cases of that kind.* Feuille, whose memory 

 will be ever dear to the Chilians, has furnished 

 an account of a great number of medicinal 

 plants, with very accurate delineations of them. 

 I shall, however, merely mention a few of the 

 principal ones ; as the inclioa, the cli?iclin, the 

 guilnOj all of which are purgative plants ; the 

 diuca-laliueny a good vulnerary medicine ; the 

 sandia-laliucn, serviceable in menstrual suppres- 

 sions ; the corccore, a specific for the tooth-ach ; 

 and the gnilhue, much esteemed as a purifier of 

 the blood. 



Tobacco, called by the Indians piifhcni, is of 

 two kinds, the cultivated and the wild. The 



* A drink made of the dccocfioii of a certain litib called 

 rjuinchaniali is esteemed as an iiifallihie remedy for the bleed- 

 ing of the nose, when caused by a fail or violent blow. It is 

 a species of the lavender, which bears a small red and yellow 

 flower. Many of the medicinal herbs that we have in 

 France are also natural to the country ; as several species of 

 the maiden-hair, some of which are equal to the Canadian, 

 the mallows, the fox-glove, polipody, spleenvvort, and some 

 others whose names I am unacquainted with. Frax'iers 

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