_ FAMILY, PHYSICIAN. pees) 
grows from four to six feet high; the seeds are 
‘shaped like e acrescent. It grows in n low mead- 
’ ows, flowers in vay, and the seeds are ripe in 
em acs 
The seed only is used: in medicing,, nd is 
warm and powerful diuretic, It my be-opeabin- 
ed with Steg ig in decoctio » Wy r- 
e with ;a ees r a dose = 
vine 2 to a cold stomach, and removes obstruc- 
ns of the li ver and spleen. ee 
c ie Winter Green. 
This is likewise called mountain tea, deer- 
il pie berry, tea berry, ground ivy, and hill 
ber 
a3 tm is horizontal, creeping, slender, yellow- 
ish, with few fibres ; stems several, upright, few 
inches high, eaiet leaves from three to ne 
gee > flowers. W, white, or flesh co. 
on droop ——— foee 
of a round, sc arlet, ed berry, of ; 
of a pea. Found on hills and moun gs ae 
shady woods, Wroagh’ the United States. - The 2 
Wintergreen is stimulant, anodyne, 
gent, sudorific, milky and coi See ener- 
ay used as a tea, though the essence and oil are 
kept by apothecaries. ‘I'he tea is = | asth- 
ma as a ellidtice, to restore st ,P 
me ; ee cases 
second stage of Bat pt = 
6 ns 
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