192 ANGELICA. 



The A. angustifolia, or Titi of the Florida tribes, is also 

 equivalent of Kalmia. The A. mariana or Wicke, like- 

 wise very useful in the ground itch of negro's feet. The 

 A. racemosa or Tf'hite Fepperhush, White Osier, is us^ 

 for baskets and fish flakes. The powder on the leaves 

 and buds of w3. pulvcrulenta or Mealybush, and other 

 kinds is a powerful errhine ; even the powdered leaves 

 are sach. 



ANDROPOGON, L. Sedge Grass. Many species, 

 disliked by cattle because coarse and dry; but the .^. 

 cilialus makes good hay in Florida. Some of our spe- 

 cies may be equivalent to j1. schenanthus and A. nardus. 



ANEMONE VIRGINICA, L. Jrindbloom. Kalm 

 says the hairy seeds dipped in alcohol, are used in odon- 

 talgv, being put in the hollow teeth. 



ANETHUM FENICULUM, L. Fennel Cultivated 

 and often spontaneous. Seeds pungent, aromatic, equi- 

 valent to anniseeds, but a different flavor. The sweet 

 fennel is bleached and eaten like cellery in Italy. 



ANGELICA ATROPURPUREA, L. Masterworl. 

 From Canada to Carolina. The root has a strong smell, 

 when fresh it is a poison, the juice is acrid and blisters 

 the lips 5 the Indians of Canada use it for suicide. But 

 wben dcy, it loses its \irulenee, and becomes a warm 

 aromatic, similar to lovage. Cutler says the stems are 

 candied in New England. 



ANGELICA LLTCIDA, L. Angelic root. Belly-ache 

 root. Nendo of the Virginian Indians. White root d 

 the Southern tribes. Equivalent of Ginseng and officinal 

 Angelica. Root like Ginseng, taste similar, smell like 

 aniseed. Highly valued by the Southern Indians, and 

 cultivated by them : used as a carminative, and in cook- 



^J' . T^^^ ^^^^ i^ said to give the excellent flavor to 

 V irginia hams and pork, when hogs feed on it. It is 

 bitterish, subacrid, fragrant and aromatic, stomachic 

 and tonic, useful in cholics, hysterics, menstrual sup- 

 "-essions, chlorosis, anorexia, &c. The powdered seed"? 

 n lice. Schoepf and Henry mention the A. sylve^uni 

 -o American, which is erroneons, they m 

 cies Henry adds that it is sialasrogue and repellen--, 

 i!^ » , •?/ ^^^'/^ tumors, and ttie root an antidote 

 ■gaiJ^L yeUow fever, chewed when visiting the sick. 



ii.it this ope 



