Gray's supplement to the Pharmacopoeia : being a concise but comprehensive dispensatory and manual of facts and formulae, for the chemist and druggist and medical practitioner / by Theophilus Redwood.

  • Gray, Samuel Frederick, 1766-1828.
Date:
1848
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Credit: Gray's supplement to the Pharmacopoeia : being a concise but comprehensive dispensatory and manual of facts and formulae, for the chemist and druggist and medical practitioner / by Theophilus Redwood. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Heucheea. (De Cand. iii. 51.) Heuchera Americana. (Linn.) Ileuchera viscido,. (Pursh.) H. cortusa. (Michx.) American Sanicle. North Amei'ica. Root, Alum root, Heuchera, P. U. S., astringent; vised externally in cancer. (G.) Root a poAverful astringent. (L.) Saxifraga. (De Cand. iv. 17.) Saxifraga Cotyledon. (Linn.) Narroio-leaved saxifrage. North Europe. *Saxifraga Geum. (Willd.) (E. B. 1561.) Kidney-shaped saxi- frage. Fl. cream-coloux'ed, spotless. June. Perennial. Ireland. *Saxifraga granulata. (E. B. 500.) ^S*. alha. White meadow saxifrage. Fl. white, large. May, June. Perennial. Hedge banks, &c. *Saxifraga TRiDACTi'LiTES. (Linn.) (E. B. 501.) Paronychia, Pue-leaved ivhitlow grass, Three-leaved saxifrage. Fl. white. May, June. Annual. On walls, common. These, and most others of this genus, are aperitive, diui'etic, useful in jaundice, obstructions, and scrofula. (G.) Weinmannia. (De Cand. iv. 8.) Weinmannia? Red tan. Bark astringent, frequently mixed with that of the Loxa tree, or Peruvian bark. (G.) Used in Peru for tanning leather. (L.) Order 78.—UMBELLIFERJ5. (De Cand. iv. 55.) Cahjx superior, adherent to the ovary, either entire, five-toothed, or obsolete; i^etals five, inserted on the top of the tubs of the calyx, alternate with its lobes, sometimes entire, sometimes emargiiiate or bifid, usnally iuflexed at the point, involute, imbricate, rarely valvate in aestivation; stamens five, alternate with the petals, and inserted with them on the calyx; replicate in isstivation; anthers ovate, bilocular; ouary inferior, two-celled ; styles two, generally persistent, thickened more or less at the base into a fleshy disk or stylopodia; fruit (called a diakeuium or cremocarp) consisting of two mericarps or carpels, separable from a common axis to which they adhere by their face (the commissure,) each carpel traversed by five nerves or ridges, which are called primary, and occasionally with four alternate ridges, which are named secondary, the ridges are separated by interstices or channels, beneath which are often situated, in the substance of the pericarp, longitudinal canals or vittae, containing a gummy, resinous, aromatic juice; seed solitary in tlie carpel, pendulous, usnally adhering firmly to the pericarp ; albumen large, fleshy, somewhat horny; emhrijo pendulous at the base of the albumen ; radicle superior. Herbaceous plants, with fistular fiuTowed stems; leaves iisually divided, sometimes simple, sheathing at tlie base ; Jlowers iu umbels, white, pink, yellow, or blue, generally surrounded by an involucre. TEcoroDiUM. (De Cand. iv. 114.) *^Egopodium Podagraria. (Linn.) (E. B. 940.) Tragoseli- num Angelica. (Lamb.) Pimpinella angclicafolia. (Lamb.) Li- gusticum Podagraria. (Crantz.) Sesell /Egopodlum. (Scop.) Po- dagraria ^gopodlum. (Miincli.) Sison Podagraria. (Spreng.) Ash ivecd, Gout ivort. Herb gerandc. Fl. white, with purple anthers. May, June. Perennial. Gardens, and wet places. Roots and herbs used in the gout; young leaves used in salads.