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Hcid, refrigerant, laxative, quenches thirst, useful in fe- 

 vers, constipation, gout. A kind of beverage made with 

 It, very grateful in summer heat. Contains sugar, citric 

 acid, gum, water, salts, &c. 



TAXUS, L. Few, ChimvoocL 2 sp. T. canadensis 



and baccata. Wood red, hard, useful. Leaves baneful 



to cattle and sheep. Berries edible, contain sugar, 



gum, malic and phosphoric acids, a red fat; but seeds 



acrid, pernicious, oilj, the oil of it used for lamps in 

 Japan. 



TECOMA, J. Bignoma sp. Linn. Trumpet Jiower^ 

 Crossyme. 3 sp. of beautiful vines or creepers. Leaves 

 svyeetish acrid, depurative, mild eq. of Stillingia^ used 

 with it for yaws, and to clean the blood as a tea- 



TEPHROSIA, Pers. Galega sp, Lin. Turkey pea^ 

 Catgut^ DeviVs shoestrings, Suckehihaw of Osages, 4 sp. 

 T. virginica most common, ornamental, bad weed in 

 fields, roots matted very tough, powerful vermifuge in 

 decoction. Seeds food of turkeys. 



TEUCRIUM, L, Germander. Prolific genus, but few 

 American, 71 chamepytis in Virginia, Schoepf. All 

 more or less aromatic bitter, stimulant tonic, pellent, 



menagogue, useful in agues, chlorosis, arout, rheumatism, 

 hematuria, &:c. T. canadense ha.s a suballiacous smell. 

 THALICTRUM, L. Meadowrue. Root of some sp. 



deemed useful for snake bites in Canada, lea\^^ put 

 sometimes in spruce beer, perhaps TIu purpurascens. 



THALESIA rXIFLORA, Raf. I8I4. Orobanche 

 cfo. L. Squaw drops^ Cancer drops, Eq. of Leptamnium^ 

 otten used promiscuously, root astringeut antiseptic, 

 useful in cancers, gani^rene, fluor albus, &c- 



TiLVSPIUM, N. {Thapmi sp. L.) Roundhe..,t. Vuj. 



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THEAPHYLLA, Raf. {7hea, L.) Tea Shrub, Cult- 

 Height be in fields in the South, 40 kinds in CInna, some 

 delicious fragrant, only the worst imported and lose 

 niuch by a;^e. Contain Theint^ tannin, gum, gluten, 

 volatile oil, &c. Mild sudorific and diuretic, baneful to 

 nervous persons, useful in indigestion and to help di- 

 gestion of the usual bad and gross food of Chinese and 

 oure. The Chines ascribe to it many uses in diseases 



