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Show 5AS PALMATED LARKSPUR. have a disagreeable smell, and a very nauseous, bitterish, burn. ing taste. Neumann got from 480 parts, 45 alcoholic extract, besides 90 of fixed oil, which separated during the ‘process, andafter. wards 44 insipid watery; and inversely, 95 watery, and then by alcohol only one, besides 71 of oil. MEDICAL USE. Stavesacre was employed by the ancients as a cathartic; but it operates with so much violence both upwards and downwards, that its internal use has been for some time almost laid aside, It is chiefly employed in external applications for some kinds of cutaneous eruptions, and for destroying lice and other insects ; insomuchthat fromthis virtue it has received its namein different languages. The fine powder is put into the hair each night, and combed out the following morning. It is safe, and much useq after a long sickness. WOLF’S-BANE, or MONK’S-HOOD. ACONITUM NAPELLUS. ag ig a’Class ane XIII. Polyan yi driia. 0. rder IEY. Trigyn rigyni ia. Calyx none: Petals five, the upper arched: Nectames two, peduncula t €; recurved: Siligue three or five. SPEC. Cuar, Peduncles aggregate, terminal : Pistils four. SS DESCRIPTION. Tins grows from two to five feet, erect, deeply laciniated, stand The leaves are lobed, ing alternate upon long footstalks ; upper leaves almost sessile, the Jacinie broader than the under: the Superior surface of the leaf a deep green, the under whitish. Flowers numerous, terminal, of a deep purple, Th r petal helmet-shaped, or eticdihies aa & ee |