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Show ae SAUCE ALONE, or STINKING HEDGE MUSTARD. Class XV. Tetradynamia. Class XVI. Monadelphia. Order IT. Siliquosa. NT. GEN. CHAR. Same as the last. ec. CHAR. Leaves cordate. Essen’. Gen. Cnar. ee DESCRIPTION. Srarx three feet in height. Leaves alternate, large, heart. shaped, on footstalks, unequally toothed, veiny. white, in terminal spikes. Pod two inches long, Flowers obscurely quadrangular. History, Commonon hedge banks, flowers in May and June: the leaves have a strong flavour resemb! that of .garlic or onions, and give the same smell to the breath ; hence used for the same culinary purposes. MEDICAL VIRTUE. The same as garlic, which, when steeped in gin, is taken in dropsy of the chest and anasarca; also in humoral asthma: and Boerhaave says, that used as an external application he cured with ita gangrene of the leg, from a neglected fracture and contusion, Order III. Diandria. Calyx four-parted: Petals three: Nectary two short bristles under the filaments: Legumen pulpy. Spec. Cnar., None, there being noother species, —————_— i TAMARIND TREE. TAMARINDUS INDICA. DESCRIPTION. Tus tree rises to a considerable height. The leaves are pinnated, alternate, consisting of usually fourteen pinnew, which are opposite, and inversely heart-shaped, terminates with two pinne, Flowers in lateral clusters, consisting of a coloured calyx of a light straw colour, and three yellow petals, which are beautifully variegated with red veins. HISTORY. This tree is a native of both Indies, America, /Egypt, and Arabia, and flowers in June and J uly. The pulp of the tama. tind, with the seeds, connected together by numerous tough strings or fibres, are brought to us freed from the outer shell, and commonly preserved in syrup. According to Long, tama- 5ORE y Cae \\ |