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domestic remedy, and more especially by the poor, it is still a 

 good deal employed in chronic pulmonary complaints, especially 

 catarrh, attended with cough and copious expectoration. A 

 common form of administration is horehound tea, prepared by 

 infusing one ounce of the herb in a pint of boiling water, and of 

 which a wine-glassful is taken as a dose, two or three times a 

 day. The medicine is also much used in form of syrup of hore- 

 hound and candied horehound. 



Steph. & Church., Med. Bot., by Burnett, vol. iii, pi. 135 ; Per. 

 Mat. Med., vol. ii, pt. 1, p. 521 ; TJ. S. Disp., by W. & B., p. 

 552 ; Cyc. Pract. Med., vol. ii, p. 126. 



DESCEIPTION OP PLATE. 



Drawn from a p]ant collected near Sevenoaks, Kent, flowering in August. 



1. Base of the plant. 



2. A branch with flowers. 



3. A flower. 



4. Calyx. 



5. Corolla, slit open. 



6. Pistil. 



(3-6 enlarged.) 



