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 1 ( 10 ) ARNICA MONTANA. MOUNTAIN ARNICA. Sy^NONYMyl, Arnica, Pharm. Lon, Ldin. Doronicum Austriacum Quartum, Cluf. Pann, p. ^20, ^lovffUT/Kn Re- 7 ieciuline^ p. 118. Doronicum Plant a gin is folio alterum, C, B, 185* Lourn. hijiitui. 4^7* Doronicum Germanicum Park Ray. Doronicum Germanicum foliis femper ex • adverfo nafcentibus villofis, y, B. III. 19. Calendula Al- PiNA, Gerard 740. Arnica foliis conjugatis, ovatis, integer- rimis, Hal. Stirp. Helv. No. 90. Clafs Syngenefia. Ord. Polygamia fuperflua, L, Gen. PL 95 8. EJf. Gen. Char. Recepi’. nudum.’ Pappus fimplex. Corollulee radii filamentis 5 abfque antheris. Sp. Ch. A. foliis ovatis integris: caulinis geminis oppofitis. THIS plant is very common upon the northern mountains of Germany and Switzerland, and was firfl; cultivated in this country by Mr. P. Miller in 1759. “ The ftalk grows above one foot high, ere£t, roundilh, ftriated, rough, hairy. The radical leaves are oval, narrow at their bafes, and more obtufely lanceolated than the cauline leaves. On the ftalk they are feftil, entire, oval, obtufely lance-lhaped, and ftand in pairs : the flowers are large, yellow, radiated, folitary, terminal, appearing in July : the calyx is imbricated, and confifts of a Angle row of narrow, pointed, rough leaflets: the root is perennial, thick, flefhy, and fpreading. ' The odour of the frelh plant is rather unpleafant, and the tafte acrid, herbaceous, and aftringent j a watery infufion of it ftrikes a black
 * Hortus Kewenfis, vol. 3. p. 226,