BATON

(Fr.), n. Ba?-to2n?, 1. A rod or staff; in pharmacy, a bacillus (g. v.). [B, 119.] 2. The genus Asphodel us. [B.]—B’s aromatiques ru es. Pastilles made by melting together 20 parts each of benzoin and mastic aud 10 each of anime, labdanum, amber, and olibanum, and adding 5 each of storax, powdered cinnamon-bark, and balsam of Peru; to be divided into rods of 5 grammes each. [Bernatzik (A, 319).] —B. blanc. The Asphodel us ramosus. [B, 19.|—B. de ca e. The Ca ia fistula. ° [L, 109.]— B. de Jacob. The Asphodeline lutea. [B, 121.|—B. de Saint- Jacques. The Althea rose a, [L, 74.]—B. de Saint-Jean. The Polygonum orientale. [B, 121.]—B.. The double-flowered variety of the Che iran thus cheiri. [B, 121,]—B. royal, The Asphodel us alb us or the Asphodel us ramosus, {B, 121, 173.]