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Show A60 CLOVE PINK, of it the crimson carnations are commonlyusedtogive the coJour to the syrup, while for its flavour it is indebted to the spice clove. ‘Their only use in pharmacyis to give a pleasant flavour and beautiful colour to anofficinal syrup. PREPARATIONS. Syrup or Crove Juny-rrower. (Syrupus Dianthi Caryophylli. E.) Take of clove July-flowers, fresh gathered, and freed from the heels, one pound; double refined sugar, seven pounds ; boiling water, four pounds: Macerate the petals in the water for twelve hours; anddiss olve in the filtered infusion the sugar, in powder, bya gentle heat, So as to form a syrup. Syrup or Crove Juny-rtowrr. (Syrupus Caryo phylli Rubri. L. D.) Takeof fresh clove July-flowers, two pounds ; boiling distilled water, six pints : Macerate for twelve hours in a glass vessel ; and in the strained liquordissolve double refined sugar, so as to form a syrup. As the beauty of the colour is principally attend ed to in this syrup, no force should be used in expressing the infusion from the flowers. Some have substituted for it one easily prepa red at seasons when the flowers are not to be procured: an ounce of spice cloves is infused for some days in twelve ounces of white wine, the liquor strained, and, with the additi on of twenty ounces of sugar, boiled to the proper consistence of a syrup, to which a little cochineal gives a colour exactl y similar to that prepa red from the clove July-flower; andit s flavour is of the same kind, thoug h not so pleasant. ‘The counterfeit may be readily detected, by adding to a little of the Syrup some alkaline salt or ley, which will change the genuine syrup to a green colour; but in the counterfeit it will make no such alteration, only varying the shade of the red. PF \\) RGN UW} NYY 1/ TANS WOOD-SORREL. CXALIS ACETOSELLA. Class X. Decandria. Order V. Pentandria , Essen’. Gen, Cuar. Calyx fiveleayed: Petals adhering bytheir claws ; Capsule five-sided, exploding its seeds, 7 SPec. Cuar, Scape one-flowered : Leaves ternate-ob cordate : Root dentate. eee DESCRIPTION. Tus plant rises to a small heigh t. The root runs horizontal. scaly, or toothed. The leave s growthree together, each being heart-shaped. The leaf-stalk s are about three inches long. The flowers are large and white, or flesh-co loured, and elegantly Streaked with red veins . HISTORY, This is a small perennial plant, which grows wild in woods and under shady hedges, and flowersin Apriland May. The |