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of the blossoms for a vernal purification of the blood# 

 The powder of the leaves used to make glutinous Gom- 

 -bos. ^ Leaves and buds used to flavor some Beers and 

 Spirits. Also deemed vulnerary and resolvent chewed 

 and applied, or menagoue and corroborant for women in 

 tea: useful in scurvy, cachexy, flatulence, &c. Bowls 

 and cups made of the wood, when fresh it drives bugs 

 and moths. The bark dyes wood of a fine orange color 

 with urine, called Shikih by Missouri tribes, and smoked 

 like tobacco. " . 



L. benzoin has many vulgar names, Spicewood^ All- 

 9pic€, FeverbKsh^ &c- is etjuiv. to Sassafras, taste sind 

 oil difterent, more spicy, all the parts used in tea or 

 powder, chiefly as stimulant and depurative, also as to- 

 nic and vermifuge. Good febrifuge m agues. Red ber- 

 ries once used like Pimento, afford a fine stimulant oil. 

 used for bruises, cholics, itch and rheumatism, leaves 

 and berries for dysentery. All the other species more 

 or less equivalents, L, carolinensis and L. catesbiana^ 

 MX. (Z. indica and Borbonia, Sclioepf) called Redbay^ 

 Redlmirel, Sweetbay, loluchhico of Indians, are fine 

 Evergreens, wood like Mahogany, dyes beautiful black ; 

 bark acrid aromatic, substituted to Cinnamon : leaves 

 aromatic, bitter-sweet, twig^ and leaves give a sweet 

 mucilage. />. ludoviciana.^ R^. Fl. lud, is used like Z. 

 nobilis of Europe, wood dyeing yellow> leaves used in 

 cookery. Z. per sea or Jlvogadopear^ ^vocat in Louisia- 

 na, large good fruit like a pear, taste like Pistacia^ 

 deemeti aphrodi&iac : buds and leaves stomachic, carmi- 

 native, menagogue and resolutive, used forcholics, histe- 

 rics, jaundice, dysentery, itch, &c. 

 LEDUM, L. Marsh tea^ Labrador lea. Both Z. pa- 

 ^jjps/re and Z. lalifolium^ boreal plants, used as tea, con- 

 tains 20 cheniica! substances, even wax and osmazome, 

 y^rj near to Chinese tea, but stronger, owing to a fra- 

 grant resin. Leaves bitterish nidorose, cephalic, pecto- 

 ral, exanthemic, &c. Useful in coughs, exanthema, itch 



and 



misects. 



Said to be narcotic and phantastic bv Scboepf. 



~- -^sURUs CAUDLiCA, L. Lions taiLT/iroworL 



Spontaneous, stimulant and pectoral, used for cough* 



&ud CatarriiS. form^riv for mrdmlfl-v. 



