ASPILIA

(Lat.), n. f. A?s(a®s)-pi®l(pel)i2-a8. Fr.. aspilie. A Ënus of composite plants, belonging to the Helianthoidee, estabshed by Dupetit Thouars. [B, 121; L, 41.]—A. latifolia (Oliver and Hiern], Heemorrhage plant; an herbaceous African species, 1} to 4 feet in height, with spreading branches, opposite, very hard and rourty hairy, ovate, acuminate, serrulate leaves, and yellow flowers with neuter ray florets and nearly obsolete Nese It is said to have remarkable hemostatic powers when locally applied, and it is also used internally in the form of infusion in pulmonary hæmorrhage. [‘* Proc. of the Am, Phar. A oc.,” xxvi, p. 168 (B); B, 250.)