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nated with its flavour, and along with the water a consider-able portion of volatile oil arose. It is not fusible.

Medical use. — In medical virtues it holds a kind of middleplace between assa fetida and galbanum, and may be employ-ed in the same manner, and under similar circumstances.

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Salix.

Willd. g. 1756.ord. Amentacea.

Smith, g. 409. Dicecia Diandria. —Nat.

Sp. 10. Willd.Crack willow.

sp. 17. Smith. Salix fuagilis. Dub.

Sp. 33. Willd. ; sp. 45. Smith. Salix alba.Common white willow.

Dub.

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Sp. 101. Willd.; sp. 40. Smith. Salix capkea. Lond.Great roundleaved sallow.

Off—The bark.

Salicis cortex. Lond. Dub.

The barks of these as well as of other indigenous specie*of willow, have been recommended as substitutes for cinchona.The white willow was first introduced into practice by MrStone; and strong evidence in favour of the use of the broad-leaved, in debility, intermittents and foul ulcers, has beenpublished by Messrs James, White and Wilkinson. Theypossess very considerable astringency and bitterness, but differchemically from cinchona in containing no tannin. An ounceand a half of the dried bark should be first macerated sixhours in two pounds of water, and then made to boil in it forten or fifteen minutes. An ounce or two of this decoction maybe given three or four times a-day, or oftener.

Salvia officinalis. Ed. Dub.Willd. g. 63, sp. 7. Diandria Monogynia.-ticillatce.Sage.

-Nat. ord. Ver~

Off—The leaves.

Folium salvia officinalis.

Salvia. Dub.

Ed.

Sage is a perennial plant, a native of the south of Europe,and cultivated in our gardens. There are several varieties ofit, differing in siz$, or in the colour of the flower, but thei r