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Show SPANISH CAMOMILE. the best are dry, compact, of a brown ciolour, and cut with a knife 721 ~~ not easily Pellitory root has no sensible smell; its taste is very hot and acrid, but less so than that of arum; the juice expressed fromit has scarce any acrimony, nor is the root ‘eet sO pungent when fresh, as after it has been dried. Neumarin obtained from 960 parts of the dry root only 40 of alcoholic extract, and after. wards 570 of watery; and by a reverse procedure, 600 of wa. tery, and 20 of aléoholic extract. Both the alcoholic extracts were excessively pungent, from a resin. Its acrimony, therefore, was derived MEDICAL USE. The principal use of pallitoryin the present practic eis as a mage ticatory, for promoting thesalival flux, andevacuating the viscid humours from the head and neighbouring parts; by this means it often relieves the toothacl 1, some ids of pains ofthe head, and lethargic complaints. SPANISH CAMOMILE, debility of the tongue OR PELLITORY OF SPAIN. NTHEMIS PYRETHRUA ee i Class KIX. Syngenesia. Order If. Polygamia Polygamia superflua. superflu r same ass thethe preceding. preceding The : ae Essent. Gen. Cuar. Spec. Cuar. ; i Stem simple, e fered, dec t: one-flowered, decumben Leave A pinnated. DESCRIPTION. oH ines pale green COen of aa pale nearly linear, Rises nearly a foot. Pinnz the ray in tne + in isk yellow, | ow Jour.f Flowers large, iin the disk ray white inst r nla beneath. hanoatl the inside, and purple HISTORY. ry; as Barbar) ates, ‘i ps This plant, though} a native off warm climate i I . "vy, and al HO o ten a country, of this bears the ordinary winters grow} als . 24 4 : P ; also roots ‘She to May. successively from Christmas ‘with “ ; us than those with from abroad. which which the the y lied shops are st shops . e usually eee — finger, little the as big ‘hey are seldom so A vinous infusion is also useful in |