AMBROSIA

(Lat.), n. f._ A?m(a3m)-bro'zi*(si?)-at, Gr., außpogia, the food of the gods. Fr., ambroisie, ambrosie. Ger., Traubenkrant (2d def.). Ît., ambrosia. 1. A name applied by the ancients to several plants supposed to be efficacious in preserving life, including the Sempervivum tectorum and Artemisia. 2. A genus ot herbaceous plants, established by Tonrnefort, of the natural order Composite, and belonging either to the sub-order Tubulifloræ or to the Ambrosia cee, distinguished by bearing opposite leaves and a hetero cephalous discoid head of white flowers furnished with yellow anthers placed upon a chaffy receptacle. 3. An antidote to poisons, [B, 111, 200; L, 84,]—A. absinth i folia {Richard}, A. artemisiæfolia, A. artemisifolia [Linneus]. … Ambroisie à feuilles d’armoise. 1. Bitter weed, hog weed, ragweed, Roman wormwood; an annual Ëurden weed growing from 2 to 3 feet in height, having bipinnatifid leaves and both terminal and axilla flowers arran; n a raceme. It is used occasionally as an matte: mintic, as a Gans and as a remedy for leucorrhœa. _[B, 5. 34, 46.] A strong infusion, in tablespoonful doses every half-hour, has been recommended in cases of persistent epistaxis, the nostril being plugged with the leaves, [J. H. Hill, “* N, C. Med. Jonr.”; * Am. Jour. of Pharm.,” Jnne, 1886, p. 300.] Its pollen has been thought. to he one of the chief excitants of “hay fever.” 2. The A. artemisiefolia of Be er is the A. maritima of Linnæus. [B, 180.]—A. campestris, A. campestris repens. Fr., ambroisie sauvage See SENEBIERA coronopus.—A, elatior (eure See A. absinth i folia.— A. foliis odor at is, A. hortensis, A. hortensis lanuginosa. See A. maritima.—A’kraut (Ger,). See CHE NO PODIUM botrys.— (Ger.), A variety of Italian almonds, [L. 46.]—A. maritima. Fr., ambroisie maritime. A species growing in Italy A3mbr-vasd, A8’mbr-wa’-zen, See CHE NO PODIUM See ABROMA. and the East, having an aromatic agreeable odor and taste. It is used as a stomachic tonic and resolvent and in hysteria. The herb is the herb a ambrosiæ of some of the old formularies. [B, 19, 46, 48,)—A. tenuifolia. A species growing near the city of Buenos Aires, [B,19.J—A. trifid a. The great ragweed: a tall annual herb growing in the United States and Canada, distinguished by its trilobate, serrated leaves. It is sometimes employed in medicine. [B 5, 19, 34.]—A. villosi ima [Forskal]. An Egyptian species, u to relieve pain in the eyes; probably identical with A. maritima [H. Baillon (B. 46)).—Folla ambrosiz. The leaves of the Che no podium botrys. (B, 80.]—Herba ambrosiz. 1. The herb of the fake eats boi [B, 80.) 2 The herb of the A. maritima. ys. AMBROSIACEÆ (Lat.), n. f. pl. A2m(a8m)-bro-zi2(si2)-a(a3)- se?(ke?)-e(a8-e2). Fr., ambrosiacées. Ger., Ambrosiaceen. It., ambrosia cee, 1. A tribe of the Syn an the ree made by Ca ini, comprising Ambrosia, Xanthium, and other genera. 2. A separate order of the Calyciflore. 7