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This is found wild in dry moun-tainous places, but the ihops areSupplied from gardens. In tafteand fmell it is lefs acrid and moregrateful than the common thyme;its fmell, in particular, is remark-ably different, approaching to that°f lemons. It gives over its fla-vour in diftillation both with wa-ter and fpirit: with the formeran elegant eflential oil arifes : thediltilled fpirit is an agreeable aro-ihatic cordial liquor, not inferiorto any thing of this kind.

TILI.*E fores : Tilur frrmincefolio majore C. B. The lime orlinden tree; its flowers [L. J?!]

The lime tree has been muchvalued on account of its quickgrowth and pleafant (hade ; itflowers in July, andlofes its leavesfoon after. The flowers are madeufe of chiefly on account of theiragreeable flavour, which water ex-tracts from them by infufion, -andelevates in diftillation. Amongthe writers on the materia medica,they have the chara&er of an an-tiepileptic, and a fpecific in allkind of fpafms and pains. Fre-derick Hoffman relates, that heknew a chronical epilepfy curedby the ufe of an infufion of iliefeflowers drank as tea.

THYMEL.E.E lacc*: Thyme-foliis lini C. B. spurge flax ;its berries, called gratia cnidia.

TlTHYMALI radix. Spurge;the root.

Several forts of fpurge are men-tioned in catalogues of the mate-ria medica. The Edinburgh col-lege, in their laft edition, retainedtwo ( Esula major, tithymaluspalujlris frulicc/us C. B. Germanfpurge; and Esula mikok , tiliy-malus foiiis fini C B. pine-fpurge ;) both the Edinburgh and

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London college have now rejeftedthein all.

The fpurges and grana cnidiaare extremely acrid, irritating ca-thartics, and operate with fo muchviolence as to be altogether unfitfor internal ufe.

TINCAR, vide Borax.

TORMENTILLjE radix: Tor-mentilLe Jilveftris C.B. Tormen-til, or feptfoil; the root [£. £.]

Tormentil is foand wild inwoods and on commons: it haslong flender ftalks, with ufuallyfeven long narrow leaves at a joint;the root is for the moll part crook-ed and knotty, of a blackifh co-lour on the outfide, and reddifliwithin. This root has an auftereftyptic tafte, accompanied with aflight kind of aromatic flavour; itis one of the moft agreeable andefficacious of the vegetable aftrin-gents, and is employed with goodfuccefs in all cafes where medicinesof this clafs are proper. Jt is moreufed, both in extemporaneous pre-fcription and in officinal compofi-tion, than any of the other ftrongvegetable aftringentsit is an in-gredient in the two compound pow-ders of bole [Z..] the two powdersand eledtary of fcordium £.] thecompound white decoftion [£.]and japonic confedtion [ £.] Atinfture made from it with rectifiedfpiritpoflefl'es the whole allringencyand flavour of the root, and lofesnothing of either in inlpilfation.

TRAGACANTHA, vide

GUM Ml tkaoacanth/u.

TRICHOMANIS folia: Tri-

cbomanis Jive folytrichi ojficinarumC. B. Englilh maidenhair ; theleaves [Z,. £.]

This is one of the herbs called,from the fuwllnefs of their ftalks,

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