88 I. VEGETABLES.— POMACE.E. 



Lythrum salicaria. Ophthalmic, astringent, used in the winter 

 diarrhoeas of northern countries ; also as tea, and to make beer. 



Henna, Lawsonia inei^mis. Used to colour the nails of females 

 of a reddish colour. 



Calyplectus ACUMiNATUs. Lcavcs bitter, affording a 

 yellow dye. 



Hanchinol, Ginoria Juice, 3iiij, is diaphoretic, 



diuretic, and cathartic : is used in syphilis. 



123. POMACEiE. 

 Fruit edible, but some require to become rotten ripe, as other- 

 wise their astringency is too predominant. 



Apple tree, Malus, Pyrus malus. Fruit of the wild crab, 

 malus sylvestris, rough to the taste, contains an astringent prin- 

 ciple, and much malic acid : fruit of the cultivated apple, mains, 

 sweet, eatable. 



Rennett apple, poma renettia, C. P. the sort to be used in 

 pharmacy. 



PoMA NIVALIS. Fruit, when ripe, extremely sweet. 



*Pear tree, Pyrus, P. communis. Truit, pear, pyrus, nearly 

 the same as that of the apple, but becomes much sweeter by cul- 

 tivation : yields sugar. 



Quince tree, Cotonea, Cydonia, Pyrus cydonia. Fruit, 

 quince, cydonia^ rough, astringent, binding, very stomachic ; seeds, 

 cydonicE semina, very mucilaginous. 



* White beam, Wild pear, Cratcegus aria; — *Wild service 

 tree, Sorb tree, Cratcegus torminalis. Fruit, toild service, sorb, 

 sorbus, ripened upon straw until soft, eatable, astringent, useful 

 in fluxes. 



AzAROLE, Crat(Bgus azarolus. Fruit of a sharpish taste, sac- 

 charine, refreshing. 



*Hawthorn, White thorn. May, Spina alba, Cratcegits oxy^ 

 acantha. Flowers odoriferous; fruit, haws, cenellce, yields by 

 fermentation a refreshing acidulous liquor. 



*DuTCH MEDLAR, Mcspilus Germauica. Fruit extremely 

 astringent, even when ripe; leaves and seeds used in detersive 

 gargles. 



Bastard quince, Mespilus cotoneaster ; — Evergreen thorn, 

 M. pyracantha. Fruits astringent. 



^Service tree, Sorbus domestica. Fruit rough, very astrin- 

 gent, even when softened. 



Mountain ash, Quicken, Roan, Fraxinus sylvestris, Sorbus 

 aucuparia. Fruit astringent, dried and powdered makes a kind 



