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^yes yellow, best bows made of it, hard and elastic. 

 Useful for hedges, grows quick from mere cuttings. 



TRADESCANTIA, L. Spider flower. 12 sp. orna- 

 mental, leaves much liked as greens by Cherokis. 



TRAGOPOGON, Lin. Oyster root. Fine vegetable, 

 cult, and spont. Root tasting like oysters. 



TREMELLA, L- Treejelly. M 



on Maples deemed useful in sore throat. 



Raf. 1 807. Hy 



perician virginicum^ L. Schoepf. Tincture of flowers 

 used in cholics, against vomiting, &c. 



TRICHODIUM, Mx. Walter grass. Smooth and 

 sweet sugary grass, perennial, good winter fodder in 

 the South. 



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TRIFOLIUM, L. Clover. Valuable fotlder, flowers 



-^ fragrant, give much honey to bees. White clover or Tr. 



repens blossoms once used in gout, subastringent. We 



have 15 sp. TV. stolonifenim or Buffaloe clover worth 



cultivation. 



TRIOSTEUM PERFOLTATUM or MAJUS, Linn. 

 Fever root^ Tmker weed^ Horse Ginsengs Ipecac^ Wild 

 Coffee^ White Ginsengs Sincky of Indians. Root pur- 

 gative, emetic, diuretic, tonic, &c. taste bitter and nau- 

 seous, 5lbs- give 2lb. of extract, yields no resin nor oil. 

 A mild purge, eq. of jalap in doses of 20 to 30 grains 

 in powder, or half of extract. In larger doses emetic 

 Impaired by age. Useful in fevers, agues, pleuritis, &c- 

 Leaves diaphoretic, seeds- used as coft'ee by the Ger- 

 mans near Lancaster. Ti% angustifolium or Minus, is 

 equivalent. 



TRITICUM, L. Wheat. Valuable cereal grasses, 

 nianvsp- cult. Aftbrding straw, paper, hats, flour, bran, 

 shorts, semolay vermicelli, macaroni, nndles^ gruel, por- 

 ridge, pastry, cakes, bread, crackers, biscuit, starch, 

 toasts, soups", &c. Tr. spelta equal to pearl barley. Tr. 

 monococum affords best gruel and a good beer. TV. 



best white starch, and grows any where 



in driest or swampy soils. Wheat has much gluten, 12 

 to 24 per cent. \^hence makes best bread. ^ Dry toast is 

 good tor weak stomach, the infusion of it in fevers and 

 debility. Burnt bread best charcoal to clean the teeth- 

 Roots of TV. repensj Schoepf, eq. of Cynodon, sweet 



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