BoTASICAii Description. — This plant is a native of Persia and tlio northern part of India. It is an annual, covered with a rongb iiut very line hair, almost invisible to Iho naked eye. Stem erect, branched, green, angular. Leaves opposite or alternate. Each leaf consists of five long, narrow, sharp-pointed leaflets, spreading from the extremity of a long las leafstalk. Flowers in axiHary clusters; in the mides drooping, and leafless at the base; in the females erect, and leafy at the haae. There are two species of the Cannabis, or Hemp, recognized in cur Materia Mediea— Ihe Indica and the Sativa. Their difference, however, is rather in their physiological action Ihan in the Ijotanical characteristics, and these are undoubtedly owing to locality and cultivation. Opb'icinal Phefakations. — Tincture and dilutions. ANAI.O&UBS.— jlM/w'ie, Amiea, Sdladotma, Berberit, Bryonia, Owmpltw, Oa/tnabii eai., Gantha/i-ideg, Clematis, Gopaiea, Sigifalia, Dulcmno/ra, Sym- eyamus, Ladiesis, Lyeopodiv/m, Jfux vomica, Opiwm, Petroleum, Pulsatilla, Sepia, Spigelia, Stanawm, Straimonium, TerdiiuiMna, Thuja, U^a urii, Veratrvta.