. Enciclopedia de las cámaras; un diccionario de conocimiento universal para la gente. Las especies son plantas i)crenniales, sedosas, con hojas doblemente pinnatitidas o doublytrifid, y un sajie simple de una flor. Son narcóticos, acríidos y venenosos. El P. común (Pulsatilla vuhjaris o Anemone puhafila) es un nativede muchas partes de Europa, y de pastos tisules en varias yiarts de Inglaterra. Tiene flores ampliamente de color azul-puri)le en forma de campana. Otra especie, i. o A.pratensis, nativa del continente de Europa, no de Gran Bretaña, tiene más pequeño y más perfectamente 307 PASQUINADE—

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. Chambers's encyclopedia; a dictionary of universal knowledge for the people. awnsof the fruit. The species are i)crennial, silky, her-baceous plants, with doubly pinnatitid or doublytrifid leaves, and a simple one-flowered scajie. Theyare narcotic, acrid, and poisonous. The Common P.(Pulsatilla vuhjaris or Anemone puhafilla) is a nativeof many parts of Europe, and of chalky pastures inseveral jiarts of England. It has widely bell-shapedbluish-puri)le flowers. Another species, i. or A.pratensis, a native of the continent of Europe, not of Britain, has smaller and more perfectly 307 PASQUINADE—PASSAGLTA. bell-shaped blackish-purple flowers.—These plantsemit, Avhen bruised, a imngent smell; and cmitain, as their principal constituent, a peculiar pungentessential oil, which, in combination with AnemonkAcid, forms an acrid and very inflammable sub-stance called Anemonme, or Pulsatilla Camphor, and. Pasque Flower {Anemone puhatiUa). is sometimes used in medicine. PithafiUa is afavourite medicine of the horaceopathists. EasterE<jgs are coloured purj^le in some jilaces by thepetals of the pascpie flower.—More acrid than anyof the species just named is Pulsatilla patena, whichoccasionally even blisters the skin. PASQUINADE, an anonymous or pseudonjrmouspublication of small size, sometimes printed, some-times only posted up or circulated in manuscript, andhaving for its object the defamation of a character, or at least the turning of a person to ridicule. Thename is derived from Pasfjidno, a tailor remark-able for his wit and sarcastic humour, who lived inEome towards the close of the loth c, and attractedmany to his shop by his sharj) and lively sayings.Some time after his death, a mutilated fragment ofan ancient statue, considered to represent Menelaussupporting the dead body of Patroclus, was dug upopposite his shop, and placed at the end of^theBraschi Palace, near the Piazza

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