POLYANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. Chelidonium. 643 
(E. Bot. 918. E.) — Blackw. 565—FI. Dan. 498 -Clus. ii. 86. 2—Dod. 402. 
1 —Lob. Obs. 389. 1 , and Ic. i. 682. 1 —Ger. Em. 979— Park. 379. 1— 
Ger. 829 — H. Ox. i. 2. 8 — J.B. iii. 660. 1. 
(The four concave leaves of the calyx fall off very soon after they expand. 
E. Bot. Plant a foot and a half high, smooth ; stem triangular ; leaves 
growing triply ternate, sharp-pointed, deeply serrated. Leafits one to 
two inches long. Stamens thread-shaped, as long as the petals. Summit 
a knob, sessile. Blossoms several, whitish, forming a spike-like cluster. 
Berries black, juicy. E.) 
Herb Christopher. Bane-berry. Woods and shady places. Near 
Malham Cove, and in a wood near Clapham, Yorkshire. Curtis. (Moun¬ 
tainous pastures above Troutbeck, near Ambleside; and on lnglebo- 
rough. Mr. Woodward. And in the fissures of the curious natural pave¬ 
ment of limestone at the foot of it. Dr. Stokes. About Thorp Arch, and in 
Wensley Dale, near Askrig, Yorkshire. Mr. Wood. In a thick wood two 
miles from Thorndon, Essex. Blackstone. Sandwicke, Ullswater. Hut¬ 
chinson. Cliesh Woods. Mr. Arnott. Hook. Scot. E.) P. May—June.* 
CHELIDO'NIUM.-f- Bloss. four petals : Cal. two leaves : Pod 
strap-shaped, (one-celled : Seeds crested, free. E.) 
C. ma'jus. 
Ludw. 132— Kniph. 8 — FI. Dan. 542— ( E. Bot. 1581. E.)— Woodv. 263— 
Blackw. 91 — Mill. 92. I—Wale. — Fuchs. 865 — J. B. iii. 482 — Trag. 107 
—Ger. 911 —Clus. ii. 203. 1 —Dod. 48— Lob. Obs. 440. 1, and Ic. i. 760. 2 
—Ger. Em. 1069. I—Park. 617. 1— Lonic. i. 165. 3 —Matth. 628—11. 
Ox. iii. 2. row 1. 9. 
( Stem two feet high, branched, brittle, swollen at the joints, yielding an 
orange juice. Calyx somewhat hairy, deciduous. Seeds black, shining, 
with a white crest. E.) Leaves deeply wing-cleft, segments nearly cir¬ 
cular, scolloped. Flowers yellow. Fruit-stalks forming umbels. Sta¬ 
mens sometimes not more than twenty. Seed-vessel cylindrical, but 
compressed. 
Celandine. (Swallow-wort. Welsh: Dilwydd felen ; Llym y llygaid. 
E.) Hedges, rough shady places, on rubbish and uncultivated ground. 
P. May—July.J 
Var. 2. Laciniatum. Jagged-leaved. 
* This plant is a powerful repellent. The root is useful in some nervous cases, but it 
must be administered with caution. The berries are poisonous in a very high degree. It 
is said that toads, allured by the fetid smell of this plant, resort to it; but it grows in such 
damp and shady situations as those reptiles otherwise prefer. Sheep and goats eat it; cows, 
horses, and swine refuse it. 
+ (From xs\<5wk, a swallow; because, according to Pliny and Dioscorides, it appears 
and disappears with that bird : but not so, Gerard observes, “ for it may be founde all the 
yeere, but bicause some holde opinion, that with this herbe the dams (swallows) restore 
sight to their yoong ones when their eies be out, the which things are vaine and false. 
Vid. also Cornelius Celsus and Aristotle. Hence, however, it obtained the name of Swallow- 
wort. E.) 
+ The juice of every part of this plant is yellow and very acrimonious; (It is, in fact, 
very dissimilar to the sap, properly so called, of plants in general; but being like animal 
milk, composed of a watery fluid with oil or resin, must be considered an emulsion, which 
by evaporation, deposits its gum-resin. E.) It removes tetters and ringworms. Diluted 
with milk it consumes white opake spots upon the eyes. It destroys warts and cures the 
psora. There is no doubt that a medicine of such activity may be converted to more 
