241 STILLINGIA SYLVATICA 



in secondary syphilis, scrofula, various cutaneous diseases, chronic 

 diseases of the liver, and other complaints ordinarily benefited by 

 alterative medicines. It may be either given alone or combined 

 with sarsaparilla and other alteratives. So far as we know, this 

 remedy has not been used in this country, but from the testi- 

 mony given of its value by medical practitioners in the United 

 States it is well deserving of a trial. 



United States Dispensatory, by "Wood and Bache, p. 838. 



DESCRIPTION OP PLATE. 



Drawn from a specimen in the Brit. Mus. collected by Dr. Garden in Carolina; 

 the fruit added from a Texan specimen collected by Lindheimer, in the same 

 herbarium. 



1. Upper part of a flowering stem. 



2. Portion of spike showing male clusters. 



3. A male flower. 



4. Fruit. 



6. Transverse section of same. 



6, 7. A seed. 



8. The same seen from side. 



(2, 3, 7, 8 enlarged,) 



