294 Materia Medica. — Eryngium maritimum. part ii.

CI. 5. Ord. 2. Pentanclria Digynia. Nat. Orel. Umbellatae.

G. 518. Flowers capitate. Receptacle paleaceous.

Spec. 6. E. maritimum, Sea Eryngo, or Holly. Med. Bot. Id ed. 120.

t. 46. Smith Flora. Brit. 289. Eng. Bot. 718.Officinal. EryngiuM ; radix, Dub. Eryngo Root.

Syn- Panicaut comir.un (F. ), Eringio (I.), Eryngo (S).

The sea holly is an indigenous perennial plant, growingabundantly on the sea shores, and flowering in July and Au-gust. The root is long, and creeping; sending up an erect,branching, round, obscurely furrowed, and leafy stem, nearlyeighteen inches in height. The lower leaves are reniform,plated, lobed, and petiolate; those of the stem are sessile; andthe whole are smooth, rigid, toothed with sharp spines likethose of the holly; and of a pale glaucous colour, with thenerves and spines wJiite. The Sower heads are terminal, coni-cal, and supplied with paleas; with an involucre of many,spreading, pointed leaves. The paleee, which separate theflorets, are tricuspid, longer than the florets, and spinous.The teeth of the calyx are erect, and spinous; the corolla con-sists of five oblong blue petals, with inflected points. Thefilaments are longer than the corolla, the styles are filiformwith simple stigmas; and the germ en inferior and beset withhairs, becoming two oblong connected seeds.

The root should be dug up for use, when the seed is ripe inautumn. It is white internally, and covered with a browncuticle.

Qualities. — The root of eryngo has scarcely any odour; andonly a soft, sweetish, slightly aromatic taste. Its virtues areextracted by water.

Medical properties and uses. — It is supposed to be diureticand aperient: and has been recommended in gonorrhoea, jaun-dice, and visceral obstructions ; but it is an inert useless sub-stance, and might with propriety be altogether rejected fromthe list of materia medica.

EUGENIA. 1 Spec. Plant. Willd. ii. 959.CI. 12. Ord. 1. Icosandria Monogynia. Nat, Ord. Hesperidise, Linn.

Myrti, Juss.G. 972. Calyx four-parted, superior. Petals four. Berry one-celled,

one-seeded.Species 24. E. caryopkyllata. i The Clove-tree. Med. Bot. 2d edit.

538. t. 193. Journal de Physique, tome xiv. 47. t. 1.Officinal. Cakyofhylli. Caryophylli oleum, Load. Caryo-

phylltjs aromaticus. Floris germen, ct ejus Oleum volatile,

Edin. Caryophyllus Aromatica ; calyx, oleum essen-tials, Dub. Cloves, and Oil of Cloves.

Si/n. Cloves. Clousele Girofles (F.), Gewfirz nolken (G.% Garofano (7.), Clavode espicia (S- ), Kerunful {Arab.), Laung iH. ), Lavanga (San.) The oil. —Huilede Girofle (F-), Nelkenohl (G.), Olio di Garofano (/.), Azeytede Clavos (S.).

1 This genus was named after Prince Eugene of Savoy.

2 Kapv6<pv\\a Graecorum.