Hi COLZ.INSONZA. iSfo. 25. 



are used, botli fresh and dry : they are also employed 

 for the sore-backs of horses. 



According to Schoepf, it Is useful in the dumb fe- 

 ver, lochial cholic, bites of snakes, and for rheuma- 

 tic pains, in strong frictions of the kaves. Dr. Mease 



relates that the root infused in cider has cured the 

 dropsy. 



Substitutes — ^corus Calamus — Aniseed— SVz/- 

 vkt or Sage — Monarda or Horsemint — Mentha or 

 M'mi—Cunila or Dittany— and many other labiate 

 plants. — For -sores Baptisia tinctoria—Sohnum. 



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Jino 



Virginicum— Galax rotundifolia, &c. 



Remarks — All the other species of this genus have 

 the same smell, taste and properties : they are equal- 

 ly employed. The C. anisata has a rfiner smell, 

 somewhat similar to aniseed, by which it may beeasi- 



vn. The other species are so much alike as 

 to be easily blended, or taken for each other. They 

 have, however, narrower leaves, often hairy : and 

 the C. tubcrosa has a larger softer root. 



The most common and officinal in Kentucky, Ohio 

 £^e. *s a new species, which I have called C. angusti- 

 folia; it is about a foot high, has smooth lanceolate 

 or oblong leaves, > three inches long, acute at both 

 ends, margin crenate serrate ; racemes slender, flow- 

 ers small, yellowish, teeth of the calix acute, shorter 

 than the tube ; corolla less fringed than in the others 

 two long stamina. 



