bile plant ists two emuiediniil feetiin height) wih eal 
green stalk, set with many long, smooth, dark green leaves; at 
end of each branch stands a round head of many small blue flowers. 
It grows in moist meadows and pastures: root bu! with 
many small hairs or fibres, of a blackish color outside, anc d brown 
within. It has-been Baste mle Tar ne tho star-root, but it is an 
entirely different article. 
The root is a good astringent, and is efficacious in the cure of 
scrofula, CP et pains in women, paitvin: the breast, and a — 
pte aia bruised x60t te two-quarts, and give a tea cuy 
— times a day. 
Brrrer Dogspane. Apocynum =r am iy The root, flowers, 
x ZA and leaves. » 
Also bitter root, fly trap, honey blaom, &e. 
This is rather a common plant, found in most pa 
_ States. It grows in woods, hills, dry, sandy soils, ; 
in old fiel t is* perrennial, large, bitter, and mi. 
very smooth as well as the leaves, with atough 
three to five feet high, with few leaves and 
and often rose-colored ; leaves opposite, two or three 
inches long, ovate, acute, pale beneath, with one large nerve ; flowers 
on flower stems, lateral and terminal, always longer than the. ves ; 
, few, and bell-shaped ; flesh or rose colored. one 
- This i is a very active plant. It is tonic ; emetic, chaienivss dnd 
syphilitic. The “2° is the most powerful part : but it must be used 
fresh, since time diminishes or destroys its power. At the dose ‘of 
thirty grains of the fresh powdered root, it acts es an emetic, | ; 
ipecac ; in smaller doses it isa tonic, useful in dyspepsia and fevers. 
Some of the southern tribes of Indians employ it in syphilis, and con- 
i 
sider it a specific ; they use the fresh root chewed; s 
the juice. It has been used for the same purpose in_ 
Tenpasec, and kept a secret. 
"Doeweas, Boxwoor. Cornus Florida. The fruit and elke 
This is ‘one-of bijaek Eells wack useful’ shrubs, growing in 
moist woods and swamps, in almost every part of the United States. 
It isso well known by its large white flowers, Nami 8 a 
Pinte, it needs no description. 
ak. berries, or — are excellent tonics, 
