DAUCUS CARROT. 



151 



Part Used. The root not official. 



Constituents. Unknown. 



Preparations. Administered in decoction. 



Medical Properties and. Uses. Button snakeroot is one of the numerous 

 plants reputed to cure the bite of the rattlesnake. It is diaphoretic, di- 

 uretic, expectorant, and in large doses emetic. 



Other indigenous species of this genus probably possess similar prop- 

 erties. 



DAUCUS. CARROT. 



Daucus Carota Linne. Carrot. 



Description. Calyx 5-toothed. Corolla, petals obovate, emarginate 

 with an indexed point, the exterior ones larger than the others, deeply 2- 



Fio. 130 Dauctis Carota. 



cleft. Fruit ovate or oblong ; the carpels with 5 primary slender bristly 

 ribs, of which three are on the back and two on the flattened surface, and 

 4 secondary ribs, each with a single row of bristles, and underneath it an 

 oil-tube. 



