AT HERO SPERM A

(Lat.), n. n. A?th(ath)-e?r(ar)-0(02)-spusrm- (spe’rmya’, Gen., at hero sperm'atos (-tis). From é¥p, a beard, and eafonay a seed. Fr., athérosperme. A genus of trees of the order At hero sperm a cee, established by Labillardiére. [B, 42.}—A. moschatuin [Labillardière (who wrote A. moschata)}. The Tasmanian or Australian sa afras; a large tree growing in New Holland, bearing opposite leaves and moncecious axillary flowers. The male flower i; campanulate, with from 10 to 12 fertile and several barren stamens; the female flower contains numerous se ile ovaries with one cell and one ovule. The bark (sa afras bark) yields a volatile oil which is said to act, in drop-doses, as a diuretic, diaphoretic, and cardiac sedative; it also contains wax, a fixed oil, pa sugar, protein matters, a brownish-red aromatic resin (said to ve the composition C,, H3305), butyric and oxalic acids, at hero sperm a tannic acid, and an alkaloid called at hero spermine., 5, 19. 75, 196.]—A. Novæ Zealand iæ [Hooker]. See LAUREL I A Nove. Zelandie.—A. sa afras [A. Cunning ham]. See DORYPHORA sa afras—A. sempervirens [H. Baillon]. See LAUREL I A sempervirens. AT HEROS PER MACE4 (Lat.), n. f. pl. (orb spuidrm ig papaya ay) oat (kes Fe(atea)- Fr., athérospermacées. Of Lindley, an order of trees the fruit of which is an aromatic nut provided with a permanent style covered with long hairs; by Bentham and Hooker made a tribe of the Monimiaceæ. [B, 19, 42.]