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the fruit are sometimes substituted for green orange peel. The 

 leaves are prescribed in dysentery with mucous and bloody 

 stools, and ip, derangements of the digestive organs generally. 

 The thorns are used in tooth-ache. The seeds are also prescribed 

 in fluxes, and the bark of the tree in colds. Also see the 

 article on page 19, 



ALLIUM VICTORIALIS.— llj ^ (Shan-suan) ; also 

 called ^ 1^ (Ts'e-suan), and the classical name is ^ (Li). This 

 is a common plant in the north of China. It has a root like 

 garlic, and a leaf like the leek. The plant is used as a car- 

 minative and in profuse menstruation. ' Also see page 26. 



ANGELICA Sp.— 115 1= ^ (Tu-kuan-ts'ao). This is a 

 plant which grows wild, and has a root resembling that of 

 Peucedaiium. Its leaves resemble those of Aralia^ and the 

 root is used in medicine, in the treatment of swellings, tumors, 

 ecchymoses, throat difficulties, and centipede bites. 



ANGELICA KIUSIANA.— 11^ (Hsien-ts'ao). This is 

 given in the Pentsao under the article on Rhus se^nialata^ and 

 is said to come from a women's kingdom located to the east of 

 the country of Fulin, is fragrant, saline, and is eaten as a vege- 

 table. Its leaves are said to resemble those of Seseli libanotis. 



ANISONIA ELLIPTICA (?)— :j!JC f ^ (Shui-kan-ts'ao). 

 This grows by the side of water streams, shoots up in the 

 spring with green stalk and leaves, and is said to bear no 

 flower. The herbage is decocted with licorice root, and used 

 in the febricula of children. 



ARACHIS HYPOG^A.— ^ 1^ ^ (Lo-hua-sheng) The 

 peanut or goober is not indigenous to China, having been 

 introduced from abroad some time previous to the eighteenth 

 century. The name is derived from the way the young pod 

 has of thrusting itself into the ground at the time of the falling 

 of the flower. In common use the name has been contracted 

 to :S ^ (Hua-sheng). Other names are ^g ^ :^ (Ch'ang-sheng- 

 kuo) and j; S (T'u-tou). A very good description of the 

 plant and its manner of cultivation is given in the Appendix to 



