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CLX. VERBASCE^. 



hence a very energetic but sometimes dangerous purge. [It is the reputed basis of the eau mSdicinale, a 

 famous gout medicine]. Of all the medicinal Scrophularine<s the most useful is the Foxglove ; its very 

 bitter and rather acrid leaves are poisonous in large quantities, but in small doses are diuretic, lower the 

 pulse and subdue palpitations ; its active principle, digitrdine, is poisonous even in minute doses, so that 

 many practitioners prefer administering the plant itself. IScoparia dvhis, a common tropical Tiveed, is a 

 famed febrifuge in America. Some are intense bitters, as the Indian Serpestes amara, and the Himalayan 

 Teeta (Picrorhka Teeta), a renowned Indian ague medicine. Bnmsfelsia {Franciscea) uniflora is the Mer- 

 curio Vegetal or Manaca of the Brazils, with a bitter nauseous bark that acts like mercury on the lym- 

 phatics, and is an active poison in overdoses.] 



C^X. VERBASCEJ^} 



(SoLANEARUM genuSy Jumeu. — Scrophularinearum: sec^io^ Endlicher.- 

 Yerbasce^, Bariling,) 



Mullein. 

 Vertical section 

 Oi ovary (mag.). 



Mullein. 

 Flower cut vertically (majg.> 



Mullein. 

 Horizontal section 

 of ovary*(mag.). 



Mullein. 



Corolla laid open, showing pen- 



tandrous andrcecium with unequal 



and di&^imil^ar filaments (mag.). 



Mullein. 

 Pistil (mag.)' 



Mullein. ( Verbascum 

 Thapsus.) 



Mullein. 

 Seed, entire (mag.). 



Mullein. 

 Seed, cut vertically (mag.). 



Mullein. 



Gftpaule with septi- 



cidal dehiscence 



(mag.). 



Corolla monopetalausy hypogynousy isostemonous, sub-irregular , cestivation imbri- 

 cate. Stamens inserted on the corolla-tube; filaments unequal; anthers sub-l- celled. 

 Ovary with 2 many-ovuled antero-posterior cells ; placei^t^ on the septum. Ovules 



See I'ribe II. oi- SGrophulartnemj p. 686.— Ed. 



