in botany, a genus of the pimenta digynia clas. The fruit is oval and compressed. There are two species, one of which, viz., the maritimum, or sampire, is a native of Britain; the leaves are said to be stomachic, aperient, and diuretic.

CRITICAL days and symptoms, among physicians, are certain days and symptoms in the course of acute diseases, which indicate the patient's state, and determine him either to recover or grow worse. See Medicine.