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BOTANY AS APPLIED TO VETERINARY SCIENCE. 
June SOlh.— Since the previous clay the bowels have acted 
freely ; the pulse is 90, the breathing more regular, but the 
pupils are still dilated. When she is made to move, she reels 
about; she gives no milk, and refuses all food. I gave a 
draught containing 
Spt. Ether. Kitrici, 5j‘; 
Potas. Nitrat., 5j; 
in a quart of water, and during the day ordered her to be 
drenched with linseed gruel. 
July 1st.—Animal better; she is inclined to drink, and 
partake of a little food, walks more steadily, and the pulse 
and breathing are nearly natural. 
From this time she began gradually to improve, although 
the irregularity of her walk continued for more than a week 
afterwards, since which she has been in perfect health. 
Although I shall refer to this subject again, when noticing 
the poisonous plants, it will, perhaps, not be out of place to 
give here a brief outline of the botanical characters of the holly¬ 
hock. The Althaea Rosea (hollyhock) belongs to the class of 
Exogens, and the <m£-class Thalamiflorae (the stamens united to 
the ovary), and to the natural order Malvaceae (mallow-worts), 
which has the following essential characters:—They are 
either trees, herbs, or shrubs, with alternate and more or 
less divided leaves , having stipules , flowers axillary, sepals 5, 
valvate, petals 5, twisted in aestivation, stamens indefinite , with 
filaments united in a column , anthers 1-celled, opening trans¬ 
versely ; fruit consisting of one or many-seeded carpels, seeds 
without albumen. 
This order of plants may be easily recognised by the 
filaments being united , forming a column, and the valvate 
sepals. 
Examples of the order may be seen in the Malva Sylvestris 
(common mallow ), and the Althaea Officinalis ( marsh mallow']. 
The hollyhock (Althaea Rosea) is familiar to almost every 
one, it being a great ornament to our flower-gardens, for 
which purpose it is chiefly cultivated. “In 1821 two 
hundred acres of land, near Flint, in Wales, were planted 
with it, in order to convert the fibres into thread, similarly to 
that of hemp or flax. In the process of manufacture, it was 
discovered that the plant yields a blue dye equal in beauty 
and permanence to the finest indigo.” 
The root is biennial, and the stem attains the height of 
from four to eight feet, having divided leaves, bearing in 
their axils flowers of great beauty, and almost every variety 
of colour. 
[To be continued .) 
