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seeds are eaten like Capers with «s, it has lately been 

 found in Europe that the ripe seeds contain 44 per cent, 

 ©fa purgative oil, similar to that of Croton tiglium^ but 

 mild and not dvastic : dose from 3 to 8 drops. The E. 

 helioscopia gives a similar oil. The pretty E. leucoloma, 

 Raf. {marginata^ N^ not Kunth) of Arkansas is used by 

 Indians as emetic and sudorific in fevers, bowel com- 

 plaints. By handling it, some persons are poisoned as 

 ■with i?/iW5. or feel a kind of nervous cramp in the hand* 



EUPHRASIA OFFICINx\LIS, L. Eyehright. Bit- 

 ter, subastringent, ophthalmic, formerly used for many 

 complaints. 



EVONYMUS, L, Spindhbmh, WaJioon, Leaves 

 pectoraU Fruits emetic, decoction or powder equiv. of 

 Sabadilla and Staphisagria^ for the Itch and destroying 

 vermin. 



FAGUS, L. Beech trees. Leaves in decoction useful 

 for burns, scalding and frost nipping. Bark also used 

 with oil or butter. Nuts edible, much liked by hogs, 

 contain much sweet oil, proper for all uses. Wood less 

 valuable than chesnut. Shade baneful to grass, beech 

 lands little fruitful. Ashes good for potash. Beech shav- 

 give much pyrolignic acid. 



FEDLV RADLITA, Ms- {Valeriana, L.Sch.) Lamb 

 Zettucej Corn SallacL Good sweet sallad, in winter 

 and spring. Deemed diuretic and useful for hypochon- 

 dria. 



FICUS CARICA, L. /Y^/ree. Cult. Spontaneous 

 in Florida. Milk of the tree caustic, takes off'spots from 

 the skin, becomes a kind of gum elastic by drying. 

 Wood soft, spongy. Leaves emollient. Fig's ciiitain 

 much sugar and mucilage, very nourishing fresh and 

 dried, laxative, pectoral, emollient, hepatic, herpetic, 

 supurative, &c. Useful in cough, cholic, constipation; 

 externally in poultice for buboes, phlegmons, anthrax, 

 &c. to make tliem supurate. The skin of fresli tigs is 

 acrid and must be peeled off. 



FILICES. Ferns. All the fragrrant kinds are oectoral, 





anthelmintic, often edible, used to make good beer. l>n- 

 less collected in summer, they become nearlv inert. 

 FILINGUIS, Raf. (Scofopendrmm officinale. Sm. 



same as Scoloprndra') HarC^ tangne. Astringent, oint* 



