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Show WALL PELLITORY. 861 says, ** Wehave the history of a dog, who being often attacked with a suppression of urine, relieved himself by finding out and eating the parietaria, and when he could find no more of this plant he died, when there was found a calculus, whose inequalities of surface gaye traces of the action of this remedy.” Clarke says that the milk from goats fed much uponthis herb, given after the operation of tapping, has done wonders, Marcellus recommends employing the carbon of this plant to preserve and whiten the teeth. The leaves strewed in granaries are said te destroy the corn weevil. WALL @EL LLO RY. PARIETARIA OFFICINALIS. SE Class XXIII. Polygamia. Essent. Gen. Cuar. Order I. Moneecia. Bisexual flower—Calyx four-cleft: Corolla none: Stamina four: Style one: Seed one, above, elongated. Female flower— Calyx four-cleft: Corolla none: Stamens none; Style one: Seed one, above, elongated. a DESCRIPTION. A sate plant. Leaves elliptic, pointed, veined, on short footstalks. Flowers clustered, small, inconspicuous, of a grecnish colourtinged with red, placed at the ale of the leaves. BISTORY. Native of Britain, common on old walls and amongst rub- bish, flowering from Maytill September. MEDICAL VIRTUE. Ployer says that this herb is powerfully diuretic: and Haller |