STUDIES OF PLANT LIFE 



with great success by American physicians in Cincinnati : it 

 acted like electricity, so sudden and diffusive was the effect 

 on the system. 



" In the summer complaint of young children it is also 

 used with great success. The following is an excellent 

 receipt for that disease among children : 



" Rhubarb-root, Colombo cinnamon of each 1 drachm ; 

 Prickly Ash berries, 3 drachms; good brandy, half a pint. 

 Add the bruised articles to the brandy, shaking them occa- 

 sionally for three or four days. The dose for a child of two 

 years old is a teaspoonful thrice a day in sweetened water. 

 Where any swelling of the body is apparent, equal parts of 

 the tincture of Prickly Ash berries and olive oil is of great 

 use rubbed in over the abdomen. In typhus and typhoid 

 fevers the value of this tincture is very great. A teaspoonful 

 diluted with water may be given, in cases of great depression 

 and prostration, every twenty minutes; it is also used most 

 successfully in chronic rheumatism." 



I make no apology for introducing the above, thinking it 

 may prove a valuable receipt. 



Another of our lovely creeping forest evergreens is the 



CREEPING SNOWBERRY Chiogenes hispidula (T. & G.). 



This interesting little plant forms beds in the spongy soil 

 of the damp cedar swamps, spreading its matted trailing 

 branchlets over the mossy trunks of fallen trees. The foliage 

 is dark green, very small, and myrtle-like in texture, hard 

 and glossy. The flowers, which are solitary in the axils of 

 the leaves, are not very showy; they are bell-shaped and 

 four-cleft at the margin, greenish-white in color. The berry 

 is pure white and waxy, and lying in the deep green mat of 

 tiny evergreen leaves has a charming effect. 



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