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The Missouri tribes call it Lagonihah^ and mix it with 

 tobacco to smoke 5 they also eat it, ftut it often produces 



indigestion. 



ANTHOX ANTRUM ODOtlATUM, L. Sweet grass. 

 Makes fragrant haj ; cows fed on it give a very fine 

 milk : sheep feeding on it produce excellent mutton. 



APIOS TUBEROSA, P. (Glycine apios, h.) Indian 

 Potato, Potato Pea. Hopniss of the Delaware tribes. 

 Noa of the Missouri tribes. Tucalia of the Southern 

 tribes. Hankt or White apple of the Oregon tribes. 

 Valuable plant, formerly cultivated by the Indians (yet 

 by the Creeks) for the roots, which are like potatoes, or 

 rather like Helianthus iuberosus, and the seeds like peas 

 and as good. Deserving to be cultivated by us. The 

 roots are white, tender, very good boiled or roasted, and 

 m soups, or even raw when dried. 



APIUM GRAVEOLENS, L. Cellery. Much culti- 

 vated. When bleached a good pot herb ; root, petioles, 

 ^d leaves are excellent m soUps, ragouts, fried, &c. 

 They are stomachic, excite appetite, correct the alka- 

 lescence of meat and fish. Very useful in obstructions 

 and hver complaints. When eaten raw less healthy 

 impairing digestion, but correcting fetid breath. 



APIUM PETROSELINUM, L. Common Parsley. 

 Cultivated for condiment and very medical. Diuretic 

 and sudorific, the root chietiy so, and with an agreeable 

 sweeUsh taste. In decoction, it increases urine, cures 

 the suppression and strangury, gives relief in nephritic 

 pains, better still if united to mallow and water mellon 

 seeds. The leaves are pungent aromatic, they give a 

 good flavor to soups, and keep the kidneys in gcrod or- 

 der. It is said that given to sheep, they prevent and 

 cure the rot. 'Bhey are injurious in nervous disorders 

 and epilepsy. The seeds have been used in syphilis. 



APUOCERA MARITIMA, Raf.' {Monocera, E.) 

 Toothache Grass of Carolina. Root bitter, siaJagogue, 

 used for the tooth-ache : the grass eaten by cows affect 

 their milk, giving it a bad taste. 



APOCYNUM, Add. Very valuable, affording hemp 

 and cloth from the stems, cotton in the pods, sufj-ar in 

 the blossoms, shoots edible like asparagus, roof very 

 powerful, emetic, cathartic, diuretic, sudorific, vcrmi- 



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