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Various expeditions were organised, and in the ninth century Arab sages discovered the healing virtues of nutmeg and mace, as anodynes, embrocations, and condiments. A record remains of a certain Ibn Amram, an Arabian physician, whose uncontrolled passion for the nux moschata overthrew his reason.
After this it is necessary to rinse the mouth by using by preference a vinous decoction of sage, or one of cinnamon, mastich, gallia, moschata, cubeb, juniper seeds, root of cyperus, and rosemary leaves. The teeth must be rubbed with suitable dentrifices before going to bed, or else in the morning before breakfast.
It is of easy culture: the roots may be planted in any of the autumn or winter months. MALVA moschata. MUSK MALLOW. This makes a fine appearance when in bloom, for which purpose it is often propagated in gardens: its scent, which is strong of vegetable musk, is also very pleasant. MELLITIS mellyssophyllum. MELLITIS grandiflora.
The botany of roses appears to be in a transition and somewhat unsatisfactory state. Thus the otto-yielding rose is variously styled Rosa damascena, R. sempervirens, R. moschata, R. gallica, R. centifolia, R. provincialis.
Buxton, C., observations on macaws; on an instance of benevolence in a parrot. Buzzard, Indian honey-; variation in the crest of. Cabbage butterflies. Cachalot, large head of the male. Cadences, musical, perception of, by animals. Caecum, large, in the early progenitors of man. Cairina moschata, pugnacity of the male. Californian Indians, decrease of. Callianassa, chelae of, figured.
And within the gate the old roses were coming on with a rush Provence and climbing China; Moschata alba, pouring over an arch in a cascade of bloom that hid all its green as with shell-pink foam; crimson and striped Damask along the border; with Paul Neyron eclipsing all in size, moss-roses bursting their gummy shells, Gloire de Dijon climbing and asserting itself above the falsely named "pink Gloire"; Reine Marie Henriette which, grown by everybody, is perhaps the worst rose in the world.
"Musca tuliparum moschata," again, "is a small bee-like fly of an excellent fragrant odour, which I have often found at the bottom of the flowers of tulips." Is this within the experience of modern entomologists?
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