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lately discovered in black pepper, bears a considerable analogy to the 

 resins. As a condiment the use of pepper is well known ; as a medicine 

 it is given to relieve nausea, check vomiting, &c. Piper longum is in no 

 respect materially different from Piper nigrum. P. Cubeba, the Cubeb or 

 Java Pepper, affords the officinal cubebs, and is a native of Java, Nepal, 

 Sierra Leone, and the Isle of France. Its small round berries are red 

 when ripe, and of a greyish brown when dried. Cubebs are diuretic, and 

 slightly purgative, and are used in India as a grateful condiment, carmi- 

 native, and stomachic. At one time cubebs had some repute as a specific 

 for gonorrhoea, but at present they are considered of doubtful utility in that 

 disorder. — Chenopodium oliduin. This is an indigenous annual, readily 

 distinguished from all others of its family by its strong fetid smell, resem- 

 bling that of putrid fish. This plant was anciently in great repute as an 

 emmenagogue (en, in, men, a month, and ago, to lead ; promoter of menstru- 

 ation), and is still cultivated at Mitcham, and brought in large quantities 

 to Covent Garden Market, and sold by the herbalists for this purpose. 

 Regular practitioners, supposing that the suppression of this periodical 

 secretion arises" from deficiency of action in the uterine vessels, are in the 

 practice of giving tonics or general stimuli ; but recently a specific stimulant 

 of the uterus has been discovered. This vegetable substance is the ergot, 

 or spurred rye. The editors of Medical Botany are also " firmly convinced 

 that the C. olidum is possessed of such virtues ; and those of our readers 

 who may be inclined to try the inspissated juice or extract, in doses of from 

 5 to 15 grains, given at bed-time, may obtain any quantity of Mr. Barnes, 

 chemist, Brown Street, Bryanston Square, who has prepared several pounds 

 of it. It must be borne in mind, that it does not succeed in plethoric 

 habits, unless they have been reduced by venesection and saline purgatives ; 

 nor is its success to be so often expected even then, as in the pale or 

 cachectic patient." 



Pheum undulatum. Its qualities and uses are the same as those of P. 

 palmatum. — P. compactum. This is a native of Tartary, frequently substi- 

 tuted for the true rhubarb. — Wintera aromatica ; Magnolia?. This is a 

 tree of 50 ft. in height, a native of the Straits of Magellan, and its bark was 

 once much celebrated as an antiscorbutic, though now out of use. 



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No. XXXIV. for August, contains 



133. Adams's Pearmain. Sent to the Horticultural Society by R. Adams, 

 "Esq. A most superior fruit ; the tree hardy, very healthy, and a particu- 

 larly free bearer. The fruit is rather large, pearmain-shaped or parabolic, 

 not angular. It is not subject to speck or deformity, is a good keeper, and 

 the proportions of sugar and acid are so intimately blended as to form 

 the most perfect flavour of which the apple is susceptible. 



134. The Ripley Pine, or Old Ripley. A pine cultivated upon the 

 Ripley estate, in Jamaica, which has in that island the reputation of far sur- 

 passing all other sorts. This is not the Ripley pine, but the Ripley queen. 

 The Ripley pine is one of that tribe which gardeners call black pines. It is 

 an excellent variety for winter fruiting, and easily known by the great quan- 

 tity of mealiness upon the pips. 



135. The Elton Seedling Strawberry. Raised by Mr. Knight, and found 

 to be a variety of the first class in point of excellence. " It is not too 

 much to say, that it stands upon a level with the celebrated Keen's seed- 

 ling. It is a healthy hardy sort ; it bears most profusely ; the fruit is very 

 large and handsome ; it ripens so late as to furnish a supply of pine straw- 

 berries, to which class it belongs, long after all the other pine-like sorts are 

 over ; and, finally, it possesses the great merit of packing well, and of being 

 particularly fit for preserving, a quality of which very few strawberries can 



