BENJAMIN. Styrax Benzoin. A gum exuded from a species of laurel. Stimulant. Is the principal ingredient in Friar’s Balsam. BOLE ARMENIACK. Armenian Bole. Several minerals were formerly used in medicine under this name. The Armenian Bole of the present day is usually made by mixing pipe-clay or common chalk with oxide of iron or red ochre. CARDOMUM. Elettaria Cardamomum. Amomum Repens. Repens. True Cardamom. Seeds, stimulant, assisting digestion, largely used in medicine. Strong, pungent, but aromatic odour when bruised. CARDUS. Cardunus is probably this herb, and there is a great variety. It is evidently one of the Thistles, or the Artichoke. COMMING SEED. Cumin. Cyminum Cumin. Seeds carminative, smell disagreeable, chiefly used in veterinary medicine. CRAB’S EYES, or CRAFISH EYES. Concretions found in the stomach of the river Crawfish. They are white, and resemble in appearance miniature mushrooms. They vary in size from a quarter to five-eights of an inch in diameter. Formerly used as absorbents and antacids. Only to be found to-day in Museums. Prepared chalk used instead. CUBIBS. Cubebs. Piper Cubebae. A pepper, contains an oil largely used in medicine. Aromatic, pungent, stimulant, and purgative. DYASCORDIRUM. Diascordium. An electuary which was formerly in high repute as an antipestilential. The Swedish Pharmacopeia of 1845 had a formula for this, and the principal ingredient was Herb of Water Germander (Teucrium Scordium). EGREMONY. This evidently must be Agrimony. Agrimonia Eupatoria. Flower yellow. Perennial. Herb used in gargles, also as tea. Celebrated as a vermifuge. ENUL-CAMPANE. Inula Helenium. After Officinalis Elecampane. Flower Yellow. Perennial. Moist pastures. Root aromatic, slightly bitter, tonic, diaphoretic, stomachic. A decoction of the root used as an application in several cutaneous diseases, especially those attended with a troublesome itching. FAIR WATER. The Oxford English Dictionary, edited by Dr. J. A. H. Murray, defines fair water as “clean, pure.” FFILIPENDULA. Spiraea Filipendula. Flower white, tipped with pink. July. Perennial. Herb astringent, and diuretic. Roots dried and powdered used for bread in famine. Tonic. FLOWERS OF TUSSICA. Can this be Coltsfoot? ?Tuffilago Farfara. Used still as an expectorant in coughs. FUMETORY. Fumitory-Corydalis. Capnoides. Flower yellow. Very opening, refreshing, used in cutaneous diseases. GALLBANUM, plaizsters of. A plaister made of Gum Galbanum, Lead Plaister, Turpentine, and Frankincense, nearly but not quite obsolete. Still used in some country districts. The formula was published in the London Pharmacopeia of 1851. GWACOMBEWOOD. Guaiacum Officinale. Lignum vitae tree. Wood resinous, hot, aromatic, diaphoretic, diuretic. Has been used in dropsy and gout. Is still used in the Compound Decoction of Sarsaparilla. ISOPE WATER. Hyssop Water.