The dried flower-heads of one or other of these plants, used as an anthelmintic. Formerly also in plural Levant wormseed, Alexandrian wormseed, Barba…

The dried unexpanded flower-heads of species of Artemisia, produced in Turkestan, used as an anthelmintic; Levant or Alexandrian wormseed.

The Pinkroot, Spigelia marilandica, of the southern U.S., the root and leaves of which are used as a vermifuge. Also applied to S. Anthelmia.

An anthelmintic drug prepared from the rhizome of Dryopteris filix-mas, the male fern.

the anthelmintic bark of the West Indian cabbage-tree, Andira inermis.

The stinging hairs of the pod of a tropical plant, Mucuna pruriens, family Leguminosæ, formerly used as an anthelmintic; also the plant, or its pods.

A fine orange-coloured powder consisting of the glandular hairs from the fruit-capsules of an East Indian euphorbiaceous tree (Mallotus philippinensis…

(see quots.).

A genus of tropical lianas of the family Fabaceae (Leguminosae), many of which have legumes covered with irritant hairs; (also mucuna) a plant of…

A bitter principle obtained from santonica and used as a powerful anthelmintic.

Alsidium helminthocorton, a Mediterranean seaweed, formerly used as a vermifuge.

The dried flowers of an Ethiopian plant, Hagenia (Brayera) abyssinica (family Rosaceæ), used as an anthelmintic.

= wormseed oil n. at wormseed, n. compounds.

the oil obtained from crab-nuts, used for lighting purposes and as an anthelmintic.

A West African tree, Carapa guineensis. tallicoona oil, a fixed oil expressed from the seeds of this.

a neurotoxic organic acid, C10H15NO4, which is obtained from the red alga Digenea simplex and is used as an anthelmintic.