62 * FAMILY PHYSICIAN. 
blaek outside, brown inside, and crooked, and . 
full of little holes. The leaves are pale, smooth, 
spres on the ground like a star , where they 
from one to two feet high, u upright, naked, ter- 
minating in a spike or tassel of white flowers 
Found in poor dry soils. 
The root is the part prineipally used, and is 
hi peated = a on and strenethener 
ote sy of 
a gilda tendency t 
re 
, tinct — ess cordial.— 
itter. 
rei ahalf'e tea-spoonfiul of the powdered 
root may be taken three times a day in a gill 
of warm water, 
_ Valerian, or ‘White Snake Root. - 
_ 'Fhis grows two or three. feet bigh eves 
Ee e and hairy, in pairs, and of a dusky green 
color, flowers in large tufts or bunches on 
top of the branches, ‘of a pale —— color,— 
+ 
roots consist y a number of slender fibres ~ 
‘Miatted together a attached to one sat of a 
ing a str 
is panacea: and varies in its a 
smell. 
ance and sensible — according to the site ; 
ation in which it grow In marshy and_ shady 
— its leaves are me than that which 
on high a seasbia ae that found 
