680 THE 
GARDENERS 
CHRONICLE, 
[NOVEMBER 28, 1894, 
f the discoverer in association with the Amer | 
donibectod wi im is com enough not only in 
scientific but popular use; thus the ‘ alba 
weed” of Nort erica (Triosteum perfoliatum) has | 
reference to a Dr, Tinker, who was the first to emplo 
edicine an Me etic ; ome Mr. Ransted, the 
introducer of the common yellow Toad Flax (Linaria 
vulgaris) to the United States, Kim it has become 
an agricultural pest, is commemorated in its popular } 
name, 
“ Ransted wi 
tw" spite of this identification 
nosum as 
so 
mos tc 
és, bi the (A, pranela the 
angustifolium of older writers. This was introduced 
to lish medical practice by Dr. Jeffreys, of Liver- | 
i in th 
Em i 
D Wik pikono G 
of Eupatorium gluti- 
certai 
diarrhoea and cholera, but its real value is asa styptic, | a 
but from 
= 
em which has a greenish colour, 
rar 
t from any astringent properties, its | are from 2 to es long, veined and ¢ 
mechanical action, t ructure o leaf | the upper surface, downy pea with an on 
n the coagulation of the blood.. It is chiefly | slightly astringent warm taste, and an aromatic | 
imported from Peru, but specimens in the Exhibi- | e odov an agreeable, 
ti f 1851 re from the province of Chiq | Sai ph er which has also obtained th 
n the eastern extremity of Bolivia. Another epscits | of Matic, is Waltheria glomerata, the leaves ole 
of Artanthe (A. adunca) is sometimes substituted for | are used as 4 vulnerary in the Panama r region, = | 
| 
S? 
| ** consists of 
or use in cases of | h the cet NOAs sali, “and 
A. elongata in m This was the case 
| the American War in 1863, A ing to Professor 
Bentley, hor r, “it may be at e distingnis’ 
from the official Matico by being in a less compressed 
state, the upper surface of its leaves not being 
so tessellated or rough, and by the almost entire 
| absence of pubescence on the zoe pn of the 
leave The t cinal M as 
unripe, others ripe), more or less compressed in 
ported, 
pikis (some ! 
FIG, 135-—-JAVARY PALMS ON THE BANKS OF THE MADEIRA RIVER, 
the shrub is known as Pado del Soldado, 
ta 
8 
ree ; and a story similar to that oo 
nected with it. Dr. S a 
story, with more or less va i te 
other vulneraries of Spanis =. 
was inclined to the 
rnis by ařspecies of l a 
only re ted i j Èe 
has been- collected in Mexico, z 
an introduction, B, M. 
