scabious, have an aromatic odour, and a slightly bitterish taste. Their most striking medicinal action is diuretic, and they have long been favourite remedies in dropsical and nephritic affections. An infusion or decoction, to the amount of a pint (containing a troyounce of the herb), may be taken daily. APOCYNUM CANNABINUM-INDIAN HEMP. This is an indigenous herbaceous plant (Nat. Ord. Apocynacea), growing to the height of two or three feet, with oblong ovate leaves, and small, greenish, campanulate flowers. The ROOT is the officinal portion; it is of a yellowish-brown colour In exceedingly powerful deccactic. Bark of the root the actin principle and must be employed fresh. If patient will stimulants gir in gin with juniper berries breaking the skein of the berry but not his peed. ( of ti Gin Of. add an infusion of Zÿ Zy buries in Water Oi! One has won. of Juniper fue guy for gü if bowels irritable kin at a time if atomach will brav it unal effect is obtained. of great service ev. 3 hours to adult. It is of 6 month's get //1⁄2... hepatic id cardiac dropsies. Medical Record Vol. X "page 460 M. Y. State Med. Soc. Transactions 1869 pp 13715139. •New Remedies Vol. V. 10p 17. when young, and of a dark-chestnut when old, has a strong odour, and a nauseous acrid, bitter taste. The fresh root, when wounded, pours out a milky juice; it yields its virtues to water and alcohol, and contains tannic and gallic acids, gum, resin, a bitter principle, &c., and a peculiar active principle termed apocynin. Effects and Uses.-Indian Hemp (which is not to be confounded with Cannabis Indica, p. 70), is an emeto-cathartic, diuretic, diaphoretic, and sedative. It is chiefly employed in the treatment of dropsy, in the form of decoction (half a troyounce to water Ojss, boiled to Oj), of which f3i-ij may be taken two or three times a day. TARAXACUM-DANDELION. Taraxacum Dens-leonis, or Dandelion (Nat. Ord. Cichoraceae), is a small herbaceous, perennial plant, common to most parts of the world, and found abundantly throughout the United States. It has a fusiform root, which sends up numerous long, sinuated, bright-green leaves, and flower-stems, about six inches high, bearing golden-yellow flowers. The ROOT is the officinal portion, and should be gathered in the autumn. In the fresh state, it is several inches long, branched, fleshy, of a lightbrown colour externally, whitish within, and abounds in a milky |