. A general system of botany, descriptive and analytical. In two parts. Part I. Outlines of organography, anatomy, and physiology. Part II. Descriptions and illustrations of the orders. By Emm. Le Maout [and] J. Decaisne. With 5500 figures by L. Steinheil and A. Riocreux. Translated from the original by Mrs. Hooker. The orders arranged after the method followed in the universities and schools of Great Britain, its colonies, America, and India; with additions, an appendix on the natural method, and a synopsis of the orders, by Hooker. Botany. 318 LIT. AUEANTIACBiE. Oxalidees, and Simarulec
. A general system of botany, descriptive and analytical. In two parts. Part I. Outlines of organography, anatomy, and physiology. Part II. Descriptions and illustrations of the orders. By Emm. Le Maout [and] J. Decaisne. With 5500 figures by L. Steinheil and A. Riocreux. Translated from the original by Mrs. Hooker. The orders arranged after the method followed in the universities and schools of Great Britain, its colonies, America, and India; with additions, an appendix on the natural method, and a synopsis of the orders, by Hooker. Botany. 318 LIT. AUEANTIACBiE. Oxalidees, and Simarulece (see these families). Bentham and Hooker fil. have united with them Dioamea, Am-antiece and Zanthoxyhce (see these families). Rutacea; all belongs to the Old World; they especially abound in the north temperate hemisphere, the shores of the Mediterranean, and South Siberia; and they become very rave towards the poles and equator. Bwiininghmisenia iuhabits the Himalayas and Japan. SittacecB owe their stimulating properties to a bitter substance, a resinous acrid principle, and especially to a volatile oil, secreted by the glands of the leaves and flowers. The Bne {Ruta graveolens), a native of the Mediterranean region, and cultivated in all gardens, is remarkable for its strong smell and acrid taste, and its essence, obtained by distillation, is employed as a sudorific, vermifuge, and emmen- agogue. Vinegar of Rue was regarded during many centuries as a certain remedy against the plague, The Romans used Rue as a condiment, as do the Germans still. Ruta montnna, which grows in Spain, is so extremely acrid that it produces erysipelas and ulcerous pustules on the skin of those who gather it. Saplophyllum tuberculatum is so much less acrid that the Egyptian women bruise its leaves in water, and use it as a hair-wash. The peduncles and flowers of the European Dittany (^Dictammis albim) are laden with pedicelled glands which secrete an abundant volatile oil so copiously that the pla
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