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Show GREATER CELANDINE. MEDICAL USE. The juice which distils upon breaking this plant is yellow, and has much acrimony, as such it has been employed to eat away warts, and mixed with hog’s lard as an escharotic; also to eat away opacities in the cornea: mixed with water it has been used as an eye water, and taken internally in obstructions of the liver. Linnaeus reports, that a tea-spoonful of the juice given four times a day in water has cured anintermittent. GREATER CELANDINE. CHUELIDONIUM MAJUS. REec Class XIII. Polyandria. OrderI. Monogynia. Essent, Gen. Cuar. Corolla four-petalled: Calyx two-leaved: Siliqua one-celled, linear, Spec. Cuar, an umbel. ee > DESCRIPTION. Rises from one to two feet. large, lobed; small umbels. Leaves pinnated, terminal pinna margin deeply scolloped. Flowers yellow, in Germen Jong, cylindrical, bent. HISTORY. Grows wild in uncultivated spots, flower ing most year, |