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fuge, and pectoral, according to doses and forms. Six 

 grains of the powder is sudorific, 30 grains will purge 

 and vomit, useful in asthma united to SKunkweed^ Also 

 used in dropsies, rheumatism, and whooping cough by 

 empirics. All the species nearly equal, and deserving 



attention. 



AQUILEGIA CANADENSIS, L. Bed Columbine. 



A beautiful native flower, adorning our rocks, cultivated 

 for beauty. Equivalent of Aq. vulgaris^ which is^ diu- 

 retic, menagogue, sudorific, antiscorbutic, and aperitiver 

 The roots, flowers, and seeds are used in Europe ; the 

 seeds are acrid oily, taken in vinous infusions for jaun- 

 dice. 



ARABIS RHOMEOIDES, Mx. Meadow Cress. Equi- 

 valent of Water Cresses, the tuberous root edible as 

 well as the leaves, siutilar to Radishes, taste like Coch- 



learia. 



ARACHIS IIYPOGEA, L. Ground Nvt, Feci iXuL 



Cultivated from Maryland to Florida. Erroneously call- 

 ed Fi'Slachoe Nvt in Carolina, the name belongs to the 

 Pistacia of Sicily and Syria. Called Pindars in the 

 West Indies. Cultivated by the Indians from Florida 

 to Brazi! before Columbus, by the name oi Manx. Yet 

 by the Creek tribes, wlio raise large crops in pure sand. 

 The seeds or beans are oity, they produce much oil fit 

 for alt uses j commonly eaten roasted in the shell or 

 pod : nutritive, demulcent and pectoral. A kind of 

 chocolate can be made with tliem, quite inferior, though 

 taste similar. 



ARALIA SPINOSA, L. Prichly Elder, Shot Bwh^ 

 Pigeon Trce^ &.c. Valuable medical tree, the bark JS 

 emetic, cathartic, sudorific, sialagogue, febrifuge, &<^- 

 that of the root is the best, the dry le* active than the 

 fresh- It is said to cure the bite of rattle snakes By 

 emesis, &c. the Indians use it for dropsy, syphilis, tooth 

 ache, cholic, rheumatism, &c. in decoction ; the extract 

 is also useful, the fresh roots are almost poisonous in the 

 ffreen state, they must be roasted and pounded, even 

 th^n they act as a violent eir.etic. The berries are Mid 

 to be a certain cure for spring intermittenta, united t^ 

 the bark, th<^v have a gooif smell, and are eaten by wild 



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pigeons. Tuc bark has aa aromatic taste, very "useful 

 in chronic rheumatism ; equivalent of Xanihoxylumy 



