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Show COMMON EYEBRIGHT. EUPHRASIA OFFICINALIS. CHASTE, TRE. VITEX AGNUS CASTUS. Class XIV. Didynamia. Class XIV. Didynamia. Order II. Angiospermia. Essent. Gen. Cuar. Corolla four-c left, cylindrical: Capsule two-celled . Spec. Cuar. Leaves ovate, acute ly dentate. Order 11. Angiospermia. Essent, Gen. Cuar. Calyx five-toothed; Corolla, limb six-cleft: Berry four-seeded. Srec. Cuar. Leaves digitate, entire: Spikes verticillate . a ee DESCRIPTION, Srak a few inches in height. Leaves sessile, opposite , deeply Serrated, rather hairy. Flow ers sessile, arisin g from the ale of the leaves. Corolla two-lipped, white, streaked with purple lines. Upper lip erect, bifid; under three-lobed, emarginate ; middle lobe tinged with yellow. HISTORY, Commonin barren meadows, producing flowers from July till September. MEDICAL VIRT UES. The juice mixed with water is stimulant, and in dimness of sight, or weakness of the eyes, has done good. Halle r boasts of its virtue, where valerian has also been given inwardly, DESCRIPTION. Tus tree, or shrub, divides into numerous branche s. Leaves hi 3 : opposite, on long footstalks, separatedintof ive portions, which are long, narrow, and pointed. Flowers in whorls , ofa bright red, labiate, divided into four segments, the lowest largest. HISTORY, Native of Sicily, but braves our winters ; flowers in October. MEDICAL VIRTUES. As there are provocatives to procreation, as shell-fish, eggs, and roots of orchises made into salep for the male, and spare diet and the use of steel for the female, so it is possible the chaste tree may have a contrary effect ; and hence the seeds have been called Piper monachorum (Monk’s pepper), who flew to them when they found the spirit to be willing, but the flesh weak. |