phlœum (fleum)

[NL., ities.] The mistakes committed in the celebrated phlogistic theory. J. S. Mill , Logic, v. 4. 2. In med., inflammatory. ume, ίς, len'); prob. for orig. *φλογμίς, biatæ, the mint family, belonging to the tribe Stachydeæ and subtribe Lamicæ, and characterized by the villous and concave upper lip, the plicate calyx, and the densely flowered whorls in the axils. There are about 50 species, natives of the Mediterranean region and Asia. They are herbs or shrubs with rugose or puckered leaves, often thick and woolly or hoary, and se ile yellow, purple, or white flowers. They ynk about a dozen species altivation, rank among the most showy hardy of the fame specially P. fruticosa, the Jerusalem sage (see sage ), a half shrubby plant, 3 to 5 feet high, covered with rusty down, and producing many dense whorls of rich-yellow flowers. Several other shrubby species from the Mediterranean are cultivated under the name Phlomis. P. Herba - vent i, the wind-herb, is the best of the herbaceous species. P. tube rosa occurs introduced on the south shore of Lake Ontario. See also lampwick, 2, and Jupiter's - distaff. phlorizin (flor'i-zin), n. [= F. phloorrhizine; irreg. slightly astringent taste. It has been with glycosuria. phloroglucin (flō-rō-glöʻsin), n. [ and entire leaves. The 30 species are natives of North America and Siberia. They are erect or spreading herbs, often tall perennials, bearing chiefly opposite leaves, and showy flowers usually in a flat or pyramidal cyme, red, violet, purplish, white, or blue. Most species are culti vated under the name phlox, P. speciosa as the pride-of Columbia, P. subulata as the mo -pink. P. maculata is the wild sweet-william of the middle and western United States. P. paniculata, with large pyramidal clusters of flowers, native of the central and southern States, is the + -ate2.] To combine phlogiston with. Phlogisticated air or gas, the name given by the old chemists to nitrogen. - Phlogisticated alkali, pru iate of potash.