64 PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Samolus. 



few, musky. Berry black, globular, sometimes yellow. Whole 

 plant fetid, narcotic, diuretic, sudorific, to be cautiously used. 

 One to three gi^ains ample dose of the dried Is. in infusion : 

 effects uncertain on the nervous system. Ls. externally to abate 

 inflammation, and assuage pain. 



Solano de Luque proposed as a cure for an incurable disease, 

 consumption, an ointment of this plant : burying the patient up to 

 the chin in his mother earth, and afterwards rubbing him with the 

 ointment. Ray in his Syn. ed. 3. under a var. of this plant quotes 

 a Dr. Brown, his acquaintance, as a very skilful botanist, of Magd. 

 Coll. Oxford. 



ERYTHR^A.' Centaury. Chironia. Br. 



E. Centaurium.^ Common C. Stem nearly simple. 



Panicle forked, corymbose. Leaves egg-spear-shaped. 



Calyx half the length of the tube ; its segments partly 



combined by a membrane. Chironia centaurium. E. 



> B. 417. C. fas. 4. 22. C. parvum. G. E. 547- 



Dry, gravelly pastures. Shotover Hill. BuUingdon Green. South- 

 leigh. Sb. Between Woodstock Park, and Stonesfield, &c. Bx. 



An. July. 



Stem solitary, erect, about one foot, four edged, leafy. FL branches 

 several, opposite, forked, forming an upright panicle. Ls. oppo- 

 site, stalkless, three ner\^ed, root-ones somewhat battledore- 

 shaped. Fl. stalkless, tube greenish, limb pink, polished. Var. 

 fl. white. (Cor. closes as soon as gathered, and against rain.) 

 Anth. spiral, after discharging the pollen. Whole plant smooth, 

 very bitter : called by rustic practitioners. Lesser C. Basis of 

 the famous Gout Portland Powder, which prevented the fits, but 

 in the end the patient died, by induration of liver, palsy, or 

 apoplexy. The plant a stomachic, but like other bitters, inju- 

 rious to the stomach if long persevered in. A decoction of 

 the plant to destroy lice. 



SA'MOLUS. Brook-weed. 



S. Valerandi. Common B. Water Pimpernel. Leaves 

 inversely egg-shaped, blunt. Clusters corymbose, 

 many-flowered. Bracteas solitary, in the middle of each 

 partial stalk. E. B. 703. C. fas. 4. 20. Anagalhs 

 aquatica rotundifolia. G. E. 620. 



Clear, watery places, (jrareUy soil. Sides of the ditch in Cowley 



' Gr. from its red^. 



2 From Chiron, the Centaur, the / made long by Beckmann, Lex Bota- 

 nicum. 



