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PEDICULUS CAPITIS (COMMON LOUSE) It is scarcely necessary to give a description of this species which is sufficiently known; we shall content ourselves with indicating the principal characteristics which distinguish

PAULLINIA PINNATA PAUL. PAULLINIA TIMBO (VELL). -PORTUG.: GUARATIMBO, TIMBO-SIPO, CURURU-APÉ. This beautiful liana is commonly found in the woods of Brazil; its stem, of a flexible and tenacious wood, furnishes

PANACEA WE regret to say that we lost the drawings and the notes which we had collected about the tree called by the Brazilians “panacea” on account of the many

OCIMUM CANUM (D. C.) OCIM. OCIMUM INCANESCENS (MART.) OCIMUM FLUMINENSE (WELLS.) PORTUG.: ALFAVACA THIs is an herbaceous plant having an aromatic odor, with an erect and ramose stem, about 16

MYRISTICA SEBIFERA (SWARTZ.) MYR. VIROLA SEBIFERA (AUBLET). PORT.: UCUUBA THIS is a tree of some height, the trunk and branches of which are covered with a thick, brownish and reticulate

MURURE LEITE MUR. L. This rosin is used as an anti-syphilitic. 1. Blennhorrhoeal discharge. Ulcers on the legs. Yellow and fetid urine. Cracking sensation in the tibia. 5. Profuse flow

MIMOSA HUMILIS. (WILD.) MIM. This species which is one of the smallest of the genus Mimosa, is found in the prairies around Rio-Janeiro. Its stem is feeble, rather woody, ramose,