DECEMIUM. 215 



healthj raw. The petioles very good bleached like 



CelleiT. 



CYNODON DACTYLON. Bog^s Grass, Bermuda 

 Grass. Root sweet, mucilaginous, aperitive, refrigerant: 

 contains sugar and vanilline. Much used in Europe in 

 decoction, to cool and purify the system. Valuable hay. 



CYNOGLOSSUM, L^ Hound^s tongue. Root yu£ 

 rarj, stjptic, used in wounds and fluxes. The leaves 

 are narcotic, smoked like tobacco. The seeds are mu- 

 cilaginous. 



CYPERUS, L. Bullrush. Many species, disliked by 

 cattle, used for mats by the Indians. C. esculentus, or 

 Ground Nuts. Roots edible, sudorific, diuretic, useful 

 after fevers. Emulsions, mush, cakes, coffee and cho- 

 colate made of them by different preparations, besides a 

 hne golden sweet oil. C. hydra (Nut grass, or Horse 

 grass of the South) is a bad weed, roots like horse hair, 

 Avith round nuts equal to the last in part, it spoils fields, 

 but consolidates sandy soils. The C. articuleUus of Flo- 

 rida, {Adrue'm Jamaica) has roots stimulant, aromatic, 

 equivalent to Aristolochia serpentaria. C. odoratus, C. 



compressus, and C. strigosus, equivalent of it, roots 

 edible. 



DAUCUS CAROTTA, L. Carrota. Wild and culti- 

 vated. Roots good food, healthy when well boiled, indi- 

 gest otherwise, deemed aphrodisiac in the East : con- 

 laming much su;;ar and mucilage, also mannite. and the 

 pretic acid, which makes a vegetable jelly. Sugar has 

 been made from carrots, also vinegar by fermentation. 

 Emollient and detergent applied to ulcers, in poultice 

 boiled to a pulp, checking suppuration, fetid smell and 

 callosity of bad ulcers. The wild roots have a stronger 

 sraell and taste, very diuretic and useful in strangury 

 arising from blisters. Carrot seeds are still more so ? 

 they contain a peculiar oil, green, pungent, aromatic 

 and bitter, also tannin : deemed stomachic, carminative, 

 PienasooTie, useful in eravel. urinary and menstrual sun- 



pre»sions. 



Raf. 1817. (^Bydrophyllumy 



auct) Shawnee SallaiL Eaten as greens in the We^t^ m 



early sprinij. " 



