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‘‘ Wall Eue,” says Gerarde, “ is good for them that have 
a cough, that be short winded, and that be troubled with 
stitches and pains in their sides.” “ It is commended 
against ruptures in young children, and some affirm it to be 
excellent good, if the powder thereof be taken continually 
for forty days together.” Some modern writers have stated 
that it is demulcent and diuretic. 
There is little difference as to the classical name given to 
this plant. Newman, as stated above, places it under a 
different genus, and designates it Amesium ruta muraria. 
Parkinson states, that it is the white Maidenhair of Theo- 
phrastus, and names it Euta muraria or Salvia vitae. In his 
explanation of the word salvia, he remarks that that word 
was given to a plant, “ because it makes men safe (salvos) 
and sound in health, and the Latin versifier from hence took 
his occasion to say, 
“ Cur moritur homo, cum salvia crescit in horto ?” 
Why does a man die, when the salvia grows in the garden ? 
Whosoever wishes to have a perfect collection of the 
“ Perns of the Axe,” and therefore desires to cultivate this 
plant, must be careful, as has been so often suggested in 
the case of others, when he transplants it, not to break the 
roots. Let him imitate nature, make an artificial coping at 
one part of the rockery, put old mortar and brick close to 
the coping, and there place the Wall Eue Spleen wort. 
Genus 3. 
Scaly Spleenworts. CeteracTi, Clusters linear, straight. 
Covers upright, generally on the uppermost branch of side- 
veins. Side-veins united. Back of frond covered with 
chafiy scales. This genus is remarkable for the side-veins 
not remaining distinct from each other, and for the chaffy 
scales on the back. 
