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Show TAQ MALE ORCHIS. to resist that dissolution of the crasis of the blood whichis so evident in these cases.” ‘ Les anciens donnoient le satyrion dans du lait pour exciter 4 Vacte vénérien. Les modernes du tems de Costeus prescrivoient de choisir cette espéce pour ingrédient de l’électuairediasaty. rium, qui étoit destiné aux mémes usages. La racine possede une odeur spermatique tres-remarquable.—Haller. Sir John Hill relates, that a fellow whom he knewwas once a year before the justices for the damage hedid, always apologized forit by saying that orchises werethen in plenty, andhe could not resist eating them.—Hill’s Mat. Med. SNAKE-ROOT. HIA SERPENTARIA. Class XX. Gynandria, ir. GEN. CHAR Order 1V. Hexandria. Calyx one-petalled, tongue-shaped, entire: Pis tilla six: Capsule six-celled, beneath. Spec. Cuan. Ltaves cordate-oblong, flat: Stem weak, bending, smooth: Flowers single, short. DESCRIPTION. ry Cins plant rises eight or ten inches in height. Leaves heartshaped, entire, pointed, veined, uponfootstalks. Flowers of 4 purplish brown colour, base globular, the middle contracted and twisted, extremity spreading. HISTORY. Native of Virginia, flowering in August. |