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related in its botanical habit, as well as sensible. 
properties. 
We may regard this plant as one of the 
numerous vegetable bitters abounding in our 
country, which are fully . equal in strength to 
imported articles of their class, and which may 
hereafter lessen our dependance on foreign 
drugs. 
Linneus, in his Flora Lapponica, informs us, 
that in times of scarcity, sheep will subsist upon 
this plant, notwithstanding its bitterness. The 
Laplanders employ it as a substitute for hops to 
prevent acescency in their beer. They even, 
introduce it in some instances into their bread, 
upon which Linnzus bestows the epithet, “ama- 
rus et detestabilis.” 
BOTANICAL REFERENCES. 
Menyanthes trifoliata, Livy. Sp. pl—CEver. Flora Dan. t. 541. 
—Curris, Flor. Lond, 4. t. 17—Woopvitte, Med. Bot. t. 2— 
Surru, Engl. Bot.t. 495 —Micwavx, Flora. i. 125.—Purss, i. 159.— 
Menyanthes palustre triphyllum, Ray. Syn. 285.—Trifolium palu- 
dosum, Grrarp. em, 1194. : 
MEDICAL REFERENCES. 
Mornay, Apparatus med. ii. 33 —Lixxaus, Fl. Lap. 50.—Hat- 
Ler, Hist. Stirp. Helv. 633-—Cutien, Mat. Med. ii. 53—Tuomrson, 
Lond. Disp. 256. i a a: * 
