&9i PORTCLACA. 



by birds and fuwlf=, give bad taste to their flesh : furnish 

 a purple evanescent stain and ink, and a fix«d blue dye 

 vith urine for mordaunt. Leai^s used by fariiers for 

 ulcers of horses, &c. 



PINL'8, Ti. Pines. Valuabte genus, loanj sp. all me- 

 dical, afl[(>rding tar, pitch, rosin, turpontinc and oil of 

 it, diuretic, depurative, equiv. to MkSy see medical 

 works. Timber, boards, toasts, &c. P. teda, pitch pine. 

 P. lutea, yellow pine, P. strobus^ white pine, mostly 

 used. The Indian tribes use the bark in poultice for 

 sores and piles, tlie bt»iled nmts for dravviujj plaster, the 

 decoction of buds as purgatiTp, tlie cones in rheuma- 

 tism, and tar dissolved in spirits as a wash to cure itch, 

 tetters and wens, 



PlsiL'M SATIVUM, Lin. Sweft peas. Equiv- of 



Phaseolus. ^ ' 



^Ht^l^^^ **AJOR, L. Great rinntarn. Root 

 tood iebnfuge, astringent, vulnerary, usi;d for tabes, 

 ulcers, sore eyes, fluxes, bloody urine, diarrhea, &c. 

 lately for fevers. Leavp^- bruised good for slight wounds, 

 spider bites, sores aiul tumors. Seeds vermifuge, anti- 



dysentenc. Cattle like it. Many so. equiv. P. lanceo- 

 lata am\ P. mantima cult, in Europe for cattle, but cows 



ir^^rh^ }^^^' ^''^'^^ •"^'^^^ ?«»*^ pickles. 



POPLLLS, L, Poplar, All sp. useful. Wood white, 

 sott, chip hats made with it, cotton of the seeds make 

 paper and cloth. Bark used for tanning in Africa, mixt 

 with bread m Siberia. Buds tonic, stimulant, sudorific, 

 fragrant and balsamic, good ointment in rheumatism, 

 gout, burns, sures, diseases of the skin, internally for 

 chronic catarrh and diseases of the kidneys. They hold 

 20 elements, oil, popullne. peculiar fat, albumen, resin, 

 &c. Inner bark used by Indians and empirics in tea or 

 bitters for faintne?s, hepatic and nephritic diseases. 

 Bark of P. balsamifera emetic and cathartic, of P. tre- 

 ptda or Aspen, tonic, stomachic, febnfu'^e. 

 ^ PORTULACA OLERACEA, L. Purslain. Escu- 

 lent in salad or boiled. Diluent, cooling, corroborant? 

 antiscorbutic, diuretic, vermifuge, subastringent, anti- 

 syphihtic, &c. Very mild, used in gravel, strangury, 



scurvy, gonorrhea, ulcers of the mouUi. Good 



