Catalogue of the collections / compiled by E.M. Holmes.

Date:
1878
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    110. LiNUM CATHARTICUM, L. {Purging Flax, Mountain Flax.) a. Herb. Note.—Formerly official in the Ph. E. and Ph. D., and still used in country districts as a domestic medicine. It is bitter and cathartic. 111. LiNDM TJSITATISSIMUM, L. P. J. [3], vol. i., p. 663. a. Seeds. (For micr. section, see Berg, Anat. Atlas, taf. 46.) h. Ditto, larger variety, from Calcutta. c. Ditto, wMte variety. d. Ditto, Russian, e. Ditto, English. f. Ditto, crashed. See P. J. [3], vol. ii., p. 211. g. Linseed cake. h. Ditto, powdered. i. Linseed oil. Note.—Charlock seeds, or other acrid seeds, belonging to the CruciferfE, are sometimes accidentally mixed with linseed, and hence the meal sometimes possesses an irritating property. For composition of linseed oil, see P. J. [1], vol. iv., p. 325 ; for its purification, [1], vol. xi., p. 470 ; for adulteration of the meal, [1], vol. ii., p. 728 ; and [2], vol. xi., p. 686. The small seed which comes from the shore of Baltic, is to be preferred for medicinal purposes to the large seed which comes from India. For fig. of the plant see Bentley and Trimen, Med. Plants, tab. 39. OXALIDACE^. 112. OXALIS ACETOSELLA, L. a. Herb. Note.—It contains binosalate of potash, and was formerly used as a refrigerant and antiscorbutic. GERANIACEJS. 113. Geranium macdlatum, L. (Granesbill, Spotted Geranium.) a. Root. {Alum root.) Note. —The root is official in the United States Pharmacopoeia. It is a powerful astringent, free from bitterness. P. J. [2], vol. v., p. 20. For fig. of plant see Bentley and Trimen, Med. Plants, tab. 42. 114. Pelargonium species. a. Essential oil. (French Oil of Geranium.) Note.—This must not be confounded with the Turkish oil of geranium, which is obtained in India from a species of grass, the Andropogon Schoenanthus, L., or Ginger Grass. It is this, and not the French Oil of Geranium, which is used in Turkey to adulterate otto of rose. P. J. [2], vol. ix., p. 290. The French oU of geranium from Paris firms is of a greenish colour; that from Nice is colourless.