FUCUS. 231 



hient made with oil for burns ami piles ; in tea for dfar- 



I'hea and dysentery- 



FISTULINA HYPODRIS, Bull. {Boletus hepadcus, 

 Dec.) Zwer Mushroom, Eatable when young, topical 

 calmant in ^out* 



FLOERKEA5 W. Stveei Sallad. Edible, good and 

 SM eet. 



FRAGARIA, Add, dried for use in Europe, used in 

 coughs, phthisis, mania, melancholy and goat. Roots 

 bitter astringent, contain tannin and gallic acid, the de- 

 coction is red, and dies the alvine excretions, used in 



blenorrhaoy, diarrhea, hemorrlia*;e, and also as a diu- 

 retic. 



FRASERA. Add, used by empirics in cold infusion 

 or oxymel for griping cholics, nausea and costiveness oi 

 pj'es^nancv. 



FRAXINUS, L. Msh trees. Many sp. Valuable wood, 

 coujpact, elastic, used for implements, screws, wheels, 

 &c. Bark bitter astringent, used for hemorrhages and 

 agues. Leaves for bites of snakes in poultice. Seeds 



aromatic, dessicative, said to prevent obesity 1 Ashes 

 diuretic, 



FUCUS, L. TFraekj Seaiceeds. A family of marine 



plants, all. more or less equivalent. They contain gela- 

 tine, tibrine, muriate and phosphate of soda, iodine, sul- 

 phate and carbonate of lime, iron, manganese and silica. 

 Some sp. have a sweet principle similar to Mannite and 

 are edible, such are, F. edulis^ didds, saccarhbws^ es^ 

 ctdentus^palmatus, belonging to the N- <i. Larmnarm^ 

 and eatea in Greenland, Iceland, &c. Beinj; burnt, 

 they furnish the kelp used for glass : iodine was first 

 discovered in it, and they chiefly owe to it their medical 

 properties, rendered bland by m"i\hire. Burnt in close 

 vessels, they furnisli^the vegetable Ethiops, composed of 

 carbune, carbonate of soda and iodine- 60 abundant on 

 some shores as to afford much manure, cattle like to feed 

 on them and it keep., uiem healthy. They are vermi- 

 fuge, diuretic, deobstruent, resolvent, &c. useful iii 

 gout,bronchocele. scrofulous hwelHngs, gmtres tumors, 

 buboes, swelled testicles, cl . :)nic leuconliea, &c.and in 

 all disorders where iodine avails. The F. heLJnlhocor^ 

 Uu is much u^ed in France against worms, for chddreii 



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