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Show Ae. GROUND IVY. GLECOMA HEDERACEA. COMMON HOREHOUND. ; MARRUBIUM VULGARE. Class X1V. Didynamia. Order I. Gymnospermia. Essent. Gen. Cuan. The 4nthers ef each pair connive with the other so as to form a cross: Calyx five-cleft. $ret. Cuan. Leaves kidney-shaped, crenate. EE Class X1V. Didynamia. Order I. Gymnospermia. Essent. GEN. Cuar, Calyx salver-shaped, rigid, with ten striae: Upper lip of the corolla bifid, linear, straight. Spec. Cuar. Teeth of the calyx setaceous, uncinate. DESCRIPTION. Leaves scolloped, hairy, in opposite pairs, having long petioles, which are channelled. Flowers in whorls, on short peduncles, blue, ringent, upper lip bifid, erect, lower divided into three lobes, middle one emarginate. HISTORY. Found common under hedges, and flowersin April. MEDICAL VIRTUE. This plant forms one ofthe cries in London, and is drunk as tea, as a purifier of the blood. Ray relates a remarkable cure of a Mr. Oldacre, who by snuffing up the juice of this plant was cured of an inveterate head-ach. His words are: ‘¢ Succus hujus plante naribus attractus cephalalgiam etiam vehementissimanet inveteratam non lenit tantim sed penitus aufert. Medicamentum hoc nonsatis potest laudari, si res ex usu estima- rentur, auro zquiparandum.” a DESCRIPTION. Tuis plant rises a foot and a half in height. Leaves deeply serrated, veined, wrinkled, hoary, in pairs, standing upon thick, broad footstalks. Flowers white, in whorls. Calyx cut into ten segments, which are hooked at the apex. Lowerlip of the corolla divided into three segments, largest segment emarginate, upper lip two-cleft. HISTORY. This is a perennial plant, which grows wild on road sides and among rubbish, and flowers in July. The leaves have a Very strong, not disagreeable smell, and a roughish, very bitter taste. Neumann got from 480 grains, 270 watery, and 30 alcoholic extract; and inversely, 150 alcoholic, and 140 watery. |