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has the peridium like a star instead of the volva. Dust 

 inside styptic, absorbent, ophthalmic, gastritic, &c. Used 

 in amputations, hemorrhage, hemorrhoids, ulcers and in- 

 tertrigo. Schoepf. 



GELSEMIUM SEMPERVIRENS,J. [Bignonia do, 

 L-) Jessamine, Woodbine. Root and flowers narcotic, 

 tlieir effluvia may cause stupor, tincture of the root used 

 for rheumatism in frictions. 



GENISTA TINCTORI A. Dijers' broom. Greenwood, 

 Woodwaxen. Often spontaneous. Djes yellow like Re^ 

 seda. Decoction diuretic, leaves and seeds mild purga- 

 tive, the seeds sometimes emetic, us^d for hydrophobia 

 in Russia. They contain a yellow ftit, a straw colored 

 matter, osmazome, albumen, wax, mucilage, tannin, con- 

 crete oil, &c. G. scoparia^ branches used for brooms, 

 seeds also purgative- The bark of all the sp. give a kind 

 of flax, G. juncea chiefly, 



GENTIANA. Add, G. ochrolenca and G. catesbei 



often called Shnpson root or Snake *root in the South, 

 nauseous, used for bites of snakes, nervous fevers, pneu- 

 monia, &c. 



ANIUM 



He 



Pockweed, musky smell, astringent and diuretic, gives 

 relief in gravel and blenorrhagy, good cataplasm for ery- 

 sipelas, gargarisni in sorethroat : used for the disease of 

 cattle called bloody water. 



GERARDIA QUERCIFOLIA, Mx. Golden Oak. 



Specific of the Sioux for the bite of rattle snakes, used 

 also for the tooth ache. 



GEUM. Add, the analysis of the root has given tan- 

 nluj adraganthine, o:um, resin, peculiar oil heavier than 

 water. The G. radiatiim^ Mx. is probably the G, odo- 

 ratisshnum of Bartram's travels, or Spiceroot^ the roots 

 taste like Cloves and Pimento, and maybe used like 

 them. 



GILLENIA. Add, given to horses in Carolina to 



mend their appetite. Elliott. 

 GLECHOMA HEDERACEA, L. Ground Ivy, Me^ 



Iwof, Robinnmaivay. Bitterish, subacid, tonic and vul- 

 nerary, pectoral and opthalmic. Used for coughs, ob- 

 struction^, laxity and debility of viscera, to purify the 

 blooiL cleaning ulcers in the lungs and kidneys ; also m 



