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JEWBTTSH. Pedilanthus tithymaloides. 



JEWEL-WEED. An American name for 

 Impatiens. 



JEWS-EAR. The popular name of Eir- 

 neola (or Exidia) Auricula Judce, a tough 

 hut gelatinous fungus, helonging to the 

 natural order Tremellini. The plant is 

 cup-shaped, velvety without and wrinkled 

 within, and more or less rufous. It was 

 formerly in reputation as an ingredient 

 in gargles, hut its virtues probahly rest 

 on no better foundation than a certain re- 

 semblance which the hymenium bears to 

 the fauces. It is still to be met with in 

 the shops of the herbalists. It grows prin- 

 cipally on elder, but occasionally on elm. 

 It is sometimes called the Jew's Ear Peziza, 

 but the whole structure is totally different 

 from that of that genus. [M. J. B.] 



JEWUL, JINGUN. Indian names for 

 the gum-resin of the bark of Odina Wodier. 



JIM CROW'S NOSE. A West Indian 

 name for Phyllocoryne. 



JIPIJAPA. A South American name for 

 Carludovica palmata. 



JIQUILITE. The native name for the 

 Indigo plant in Central America. 



JIRA. The Indian name for Cumin. 



JITO. A Brazilian purgative, supposed 

 to be a species of Guarea. 



JOAN SILVER-PIN. Papaver Rhceas. 



JOAR, JOWARREE, JONDLA. Indian 

 names for Sorghum vulgare. 



JOB'S TEARS. Coix Lachryma. 



JOCASTE. A genus of Liliacece from In- 

 dia, founded on Smilacina purpurea. It has 

 a horizontal rhizome, a simple leafy stem, 

 scattered leaves, and a terminal raceme of 

 violet-purple flowers, with the perianth 

 leaves elliptical united at the base, six 

 stamens with awl-shaped filaments, and a 

 three-celled ovary. [J. T. S.] 



JOE-PYE WEED. An American name 

 for Eapatorium purpureum. 



JOHANNIS-BROD. A German name 

 for the pod of the Carob tree. 



JOHNSONIA. A genus of Liliacem, 

 allied to Aphyllanthes, founded on a South 

 Australian plant, with fibrous roots, two- 

 ranked linear leaves, and a simple scape 

 terminating in an oblong nodding spike, 

 with imbricated coloured bracts, the lower 

 ones small and sterile, the rest one-flower- 

 ed. The flowers are small sessile, with a 

 six-parted connivent perianth, three sta- 

 mens, and a membranous capsule. [J. T. S.] 



JOINTED. Falling in pieces at the 

 joints, or separating readily there, or fur- i 

 nished with a distinct joint. Also applied 

 to bodies having the appearance of being 

 jointed, as the stem and leaves of Juncus 

 articulatus. 



JOINTWEED. An American name for 

 Polygonum articulatum. 



JOLI-BOIS. (Fr.) Daphne Mezereum. 



JONC. (Fr.) Juncus. — A BALAIS. 

 Phragmites communis. — DES CHAISIERS. 

 Scirpus lacustris. — DES JARDINIEE.S. 

 Juncus glaucus. — DES TONNELIERS. 

 Scirpus lacustris. — FETALIS. Juncus effu- 

 sus. — FLEURI. Butomus umbellatus. 

 — MARIN. Vlex europwus. — ODO- 

 RANT. Andropogo7i Schcenanthus. 



JONCINELLE. (Fr.) Eriocaulon. 



JONCIOLE. (Fr.) Aphyllanthes. 



JONESIA. The generic name of a few 

 pinnated-leaved trees of the leguminous 

 family, found in the Malayan peninsula 

 and the adjacent islands. They are large 

 shrubs or trees of twenty to forty feet in 

 height, with the habit and leaves of Brow- 

 nea, to which they are nearly allied, but 

 they differ from them and others in the 

 flowers being destitute of petals. The 

 glossy leaves, a foot or more long, are made 

 up of three to six pairs of oblong or lance- 

 shaped leaflets, and the bright scarlet 

 flowers are in terminal rounded clusters, 

 having much superficial resemblance to 

 those of the scarlet Ixora. Each flower con- 

 sists of a tubular calyx supported by two 

 rounded bracts, and having a four-parted 

 petal-like border, and six to eight long pro- 

 truding stamens. The ripe pod is cimiter- 

 shaped. The Ushoka of the Bengalese, 

 J. Asoca, is very commonly planted through- 

 out India, and is also cultivated in the Mau- 

 ritius for the beauty of its flowers and fo- 

 liage. Some Japanese species have flower 

 clusters six to eight inches across. The 

 genus bears the name of Sir William Jones, 

 the eminent lawyer and scholar. [A. A. B.j 



JONNA. An Indian name for grain. 



JONQUIL. Narcissus Jonquilla. — , 

 QUEEN ANNE'S. Narcissus pusillus plenus. 



JONQUILLE. (Fr.) Narcissus Jon- 

 quilla. 



JORDANIA. A genus of Caryophyllacea?, 

 consisting of herbs from Asia Minor, with 

 the habit of Queria, or of the aggregate- 

 flowered Arenariw. The leaves are setace- 

 ous, united at the base ; the flowers small, 

 in dense cymes, with squarrose bracts, a 

 tubular calyx of five united sepals with 

 two bracts at the base, five petals, two 

 styles, and four-valved capsules. [J. T. S.] 



JOSEPHIA lanceolata, and latifolia, are 

 the names given to two epiphytal vaudeous 

 orchids of Malabar and Ceylon. They are 

 stemless herbs, with a tuft of stalked, 

 lance-shaped, coriaceous leaves, four to six 

 inches in length, and slender scapes bear- 

 ing panicles of minute flowers of a whitish 

 colour, tinged with pink. The flowers are 

 said to be renewed annually on the old 

 scapes. The anther has four parallel club- 

 shaped pollen-masses, attached to a di- 

 lated shield-like gland. Named after Dr. 

 Joseph D. Hooker, a well-known English 

 botanist. [A. A. B.] 



JOSEPHINIA. A genus of Pedaliacem, 



