Botanical DESCitrPTion. — Tliis plant is Itnown to botanists, at present, s the Oham<Bliriuin hiteum. (WiHenow, Gray.) It is tlie Veratrum luleum dbyGoogle S52 HELOIHAg DIOICA. of Llnnictts, the Melanlhivm dioieum. <\t Walter, and Hehnios dioSea of PuTsli. It is also known by the common names of DevU's Bit, Starwort, etc The same popular names are applied to the Aletria farinoga. It la a herbaceous perennial, with a large, somewhat bulbous, premorae root, I'rora which arises a simple, very smootli, somewhat angular, item or sec^pe, one or two Feet in height. The cauline leaves are lanceolate, acute, small, and at some distance from each other, without petioles ; the radical leaves are broader, being From four to eight inches in length, by half-an- inch lo an inch in width, narrow at the base, and Formed into a sort of whorl at the base of the scape. The fiowert are small, rery numerous, greenish- white, and are disposed in long, terminal, spicale, nodding, dim cious racemes, resembling a plume, and which are moie slender and weak on the barren plants. Male fimeers, wilh whito, linear-spatulate, obtuse, one nerved petals; atamens rather longer than the petals, female flow^'e, the raceme is gen- erally few-flowered, becoming erect; petaU linear; »tamen» very sliort, aboi'ttve; onary ovate, sub-triangular, with the sides deeply furrowed; stigmas three, spreading or roflesed. Oap»ule ovate oblong, tapering to tlic base, three-furrowed, opening at the summit. Seedt, many In eacli cell, acute compressed .^(G'ray). Officinal Prepahatiohs. — Tincture of theroot; dilntions; triturations of the root; ajid c-f the active principle, Selonin. AKAiiOauES. — Aletris fariricsa, Ckelone glabra, Comvg fiorida, China, Frasera, Ferrum, Hydrastis, Nitrate of Uranivm (f), Phosplwrtc acid, Berhecio, Sepia. Mental Sphere. The mind is exceedingly dul] and inactive. Irritable; conld not endure the least contradiction, or receive anj Biiggestions in relation to any snbject; all conver- sation was unpleasant. * Desires solitude; fault finding.