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Show BARBERRY. ae eS “rwi we ay et kaa.Mate aS " ‘ s&s & ae ee ed 360 of The bark of the stem infused in beer has the reputation y probabl hence ; yellow ul beautif a euring the jaundice. It dyes in and acid, are fruit and leaves ‘The arose this boasted virtue. kinds the form of jam veryrefreshing in acute disease, viz. all pawith enced experi has he says Haller as of inflammation, . tients, and in himself Prosper Alpinus mentions, that being attacked with a putrid y fever accompanied with a bilious diarrhea, he owes his recover whollyto eating the fruit of the barberry. Simon Pauli relates that he found a similar result. J. Bauhin recommends the same remedy in dysentery. These observations certainly merit the attention of modern practitioners, acids in general being found beneficial in such alarming diseases, when perhaps a drink made of the berries, sweetened with sugar, might be found a specific in such fatal disorders. The jamis thus pree sy pared :-— e Bareerry JAM. ‘l mas area aes MEDICAL VIRTUES. COMMON MEADOWSAFFRON. COLCHICUM AUTUMNALE. pau: Pick them from the stalks, bake them in an earthen large wooden when baked, pass them through a sicve with a ed spoon ; weighthe barberries, and put their weight of powder up; coverit and pans your in it put sugar; mix well together, set it in a dry place; when youhavefilled your pans, sift powdered sugar over the tops. Class V1. Hexandria. Essenr. GEN. Cuan. Order I11. Trigynia. Tube radical: Capsules con Corolla six-parted: nected, inflated. Spec. Caar. Leaves flat, lanceolate, erect. DESCRIPTION. Tue root is a double succulent bulb. The flower is large, of a purple colour, and comes directly from the root. ‘The leaves appear in spring, and are radical, and spear-shaped. Corolla consisting of a single petal, divided into six lance-shaped erect segments. Capsule three-lobed, divided into three cells, containing globular seeds, which are not ripened until the succeeding spring, when the capsule rises above the ground upon a strong peduncle. HISTORY. Meadowsaffron is a perennial bulbous-rooted plant, which grows in wet meadows in the temperate countries of Europe. [t flowers in the beginning of autumn, at which time theold bulb begins to decay, and a newbulb to be formed. In the following May the new bulb is perfected, and the old one wasted and corrugated. ‘They are dug for medical use in the beginning |