270 STAVESACRE STONECROP, VIRGINIA. 



beaked at the apex. Taste, sweet, aromatic, fennel or 

 anise-like. The odour is similar. 



A spurious kind, the fruit Illicium religiosum, Sieb. and 

 Zucc., with similar shape, but rather shorter, with a 

 turpentiny taste, imported from Japan, is sometimes 

 met with. It possesses poisonous properties. The oil 

 resembles Oil of Aniseed, and can only be distinguished 

 by chemical tests. 



STAVESACRE. Delphinium Staphlsagria, Linn. 



N.O. Ramwculacea. 

 Syn. Starvesacre, Staphisagris. 



Part used Seeds. 



Action Vermifuge and vermin destroying. Used as 

 lotion, wash, or ointment for destroying lice in hair, &c. 



Preparations Ointment B.P. Fluid extract U.S. P. : 

 Dose, i drop. 



Distinctive character The seeds are greyish black, 

 wrinkled and pitted, more or less triangular, or four- 

 sided, with the back convex, about f inch long and 

 rather less in width, ten weighing about 6 grains. 

 Albumen oily. Taste, bitter and tingling. Odour, 

 none. 



STONECROP, VIRGINIA. 



Peathorum sedoides, Linn. 

 N.O. Crassulacfte. 

 Syn. Ditch Stonecrop, Penthorum. 



Part used Herb. 



Action Astringent, laxative, demulcent. Has been 

 employed successfully in the treatment of diarrhoea, 

 haemorrhoids, cholera infantum, &c. It is of value in 



