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Show 546 COMMON CAPER BUSH. MEDICAL USE. The bark of the root has been used in obstructions of the liver and menstrual suppressions. CULINARYUSE. The buds are made into a pickle with vinegar, and chopped up with melted butter, and eaten with boiled mutton. At first the taste is unpleasant, but after a little use becomes extremely agreeable PALMATED LARKSPUR. DELPHINIUM STAPHISAGRIA. Class XIII. Polyandria. Order IML. Trigynia. Nt.Gen, Cuan. Calyx none: Petals five: Nectary bifid, behind cornuted: pec. Silique three, orfive. CHAR. Nectaries three-leayed, shorter than the petal: Leaves pal- ated, lobes obtuse. EE DESCRIPTION. ‘es two or three feet. Leaves palmated, divided into five or ven lobes, which are ovate or lance-shaped, on very long icles below, shorter above, giving a conical shape to the € plant. Flowers blue or purple. HISTORY, Sarra . . . ‘avesacre isYe a« biennial plant, a native of the’south of Eulhe seeds are usually brought from Italy. They are ge and rough, of an irregular triangular figure, of a blackish ur on the outside, and yellowish or whitish within; they Sta 2N2 |