REGU

373

Ratifia de Coings. Take Oij of the juice of quinces, gr. xxiv each ofcloves and cinnamon, Oiv of brandy, Ibiij of sugar. Infuse for amonth, and strain before adding the sugar and water.

Ratafia de Fleurs d'Orange. Take Jxij of orange-flowers, ftij ofwhite sugar, and Oiv of brandy; steep the flowers in the brandy fora month or more; add the sugar, and filter.

Ratafia des Framboises is made like Ratafia de Cassis.

Ratafia de Genievre. Take ^viij of juniper-berries, 5J each ofcoriander, angelica, cinnamon, and cloves, ftij of sugar, Oiv ofbrandy, bruise the aromatics, and steep for a month; filter, and addthe sugar.

Ratafia de Grenade is made with pomegranate-juice, like Ratafia deCoings.

Ratafia de Grenoble is made with cherries, like Ratafia deCerises.

Ratafia de Groseilles is made with gooseberry-juice, like Ratafia deCoings.

Ratafia de Mures is made with mulberry-juice, in the same way.

Ratafia de Noyaux is made by steeping the bruised kernels of apricots,peaches, or bitter almonds, in brandy for a month, and sweeteningwith sugar.

Ratafia d'CEillets is made with the white heels of clove pinks, likeRatafia de Fleurs d'Orange.

Ratafia de Peciies is made of the juice of peaches, and their kernels,like Ratafia de Coings.

Ratafia de la Provencale is made with striped pinks, strawberry-juice, and saffron, like the last.

Ratafia a la Violette is made like the Ratafia d'CEillets, with Flo-rentine iris root, and coloured with archel.

Ratanhia, or Ratany Root. See Krameria.

Ratsbane. White Arsenic, and sometimes Nux Vomica is so called.

Rattle-snake Root. See Senega Radix.

Realgar. Red Sulphuret of Arsenic, or Red Arsenic. A native oreof arsenic, which is used by painters. It may be made artificially, bysubliming sulphur and arsenic.Poisonous, see Arsenici Oxydum.

Red Lead. See Minium.

Red Precipitate. See Hydrargyri Nitrico-Oxydum.

Red Saunders. See Pterocarpi Lignum.

Regulus of Antimony is the metallic antimony, when purified bymelting common antimony in a red-hot crucible, with nitrate ofpotass, and supertartrate of potass. When melted with iron, it iscalled Martial regulus, or Regulus stdhdus.