29 POLYGALA SENEGA 



and is regarded generally as a valuable remedy in chronic bron- 

 chitis and chronic pneumonia. It has also been employed in 

 croup, whooping-cough, humoral' asthma, dropsy depending on 

 kidney disease, palpitations connected with disease of the heart, 

 amenorrhoea, dysmenorrhoea, rheumatism, and other diseases. It 

 is frequently combined with great advantage with carbonate of 

 ammonia, as in chronic bronchitis, and also with other expecto- 

 rants and diuretics, as squill, &c. 



Per. Mat. Med., vol. ii, pt. 2, p. 566 ; Pharmacographia, p. 72 ; 

 U. S. Disp., by W. & B., p. 795; Garr., Mat. Med., p. 211; 

 Journ. de Pharm., vol. xxii, p. 449, and vol. xxiii, p. 227; 

 Amer. Journ. Pharm., vol. xxvii, p. 45, and March, 1860, p. 150. 



DESCRIPTION OF PLATE. 



Drawn from specimens in the British Museum collected in Virginia and 

 Ohio, U. S. A. 



1. Upper part *f a flowering stem. 



2. Lower portion of a plant. 



3. Calyx seen from below. 



4. Vertical section of the flower. 



5. Corolla and stamens seen from above. 



6. Plan of tlie flower. 



7. Capsule. 



8. Vertical, and 9. Transverse section of the same. 

 10, 11. Seed, showing the caruncle. 



12. Vertical, and 13. Transverse section of seed. 



(3-13 enlarged.) 



