...of it gives a black precipitate, with sulphate of iron. It graciously consents to become an astringent and a styptic, and a poultice, and, banished from all other temples, still lingers in those of Aesculapius . The botanist also finds his special satisfactions in the flower. It has some strange peculiarities of structure. So loose is the internal distribution of its tissues, that it was for some ti...