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Myricaceae. — 49. Bayberry, Myrica cerifera, bark of 

 the root made into a tea an excellent remedy for dysentery, 

 pulverised " an excellent sneezing or headache snufF." 



(50. Meadoiv Fern, Comptonia asplenifolia.) 



(116. Sweet Gale, Myrica Gale.) 



Betulaceae. — 51. Black Birch, Betula lenta, a tea drunk 

 with milk, a galactagogue and emmenagogue. The sap 

 drunk freely good for gravel, to purify the blood and heal 

 canker in the mouth ; as a syrup restorative after dysentery. 



206. Sivamp or Tag Alder, Alnus incana, bark in a tea 

 good for all diseases of the skin and as a wash for bad 

 ulcers and sores ; the " tags " bark and boughs made into 

 a beer cleanse the blood ; as an ointment good for bruises 

 and all inflammations. 



Salicaceae. — (52. White Poj)lar, Populus alba.) 

 (53. Stinking Poplar, Populus balsamifera.) 



54. Balm of Gilead, Populus balsamifera, var. candicans, 

 the buds with several other ingredients boiled into a syrup 

 and sweetened, an excellent stomachic and strengthening 

 syrup. 



207. Red Rod, Red Willow, Salix purpurea, with several 

 other ingredients in a tea "cleanses the system from all 

 cancerous and scrofulous affections." 



CoNiFERAE. — 56. Hemlock, Abies Canadensis, the inner 

 bark with bayberry, ginger, cayenne, etc., for " composition 

 powders " to cure colds, rheumatism, " relax," etc. ; also the 

 boughs in a tea with other ingredients good for chlorosis. 



55. Balsam Fir, Abies balsamea, the balsam cures sore 

 nipples. 



208. White Pine, Pinus Strobus, the bark made into a 

 tea with Seneca snakeroot, burdock seed and prickly ash 

 bark, good for rheumatism. 



209. Tamarisk (apparently a misprint for Tamarack, 

 as this tree is certainly meant), Larix Americana, bark 

 aperient and corroborant, leaves used in jaundice, bleeding 

 at the lungs, and some skin diseases, ulcers, bruises, dropsy ; 

 also an emmenagogue. 



117. Cedar, Thuja occidentalis, "cedar boughs" an in- 

 gredient in a tea for chlorosis. 



210. Savine, Juniperus Virginiana or J. Sabina, var. 

 procumbens, leaves applied externally in powder or in- 



