14 I. VEGETABLES.— Ahoide^. 



10. FLUVIATILES. 



*PoND "WEED, Potamogeton, P. natans. Cooling: used in 

 itchings, and against old ulcers. 



11. ZOSTEREiE. 



*Grass wrack, Alga, Zostera marina, %, trinerva^ Z. Oceanica, 

 Cooling; used in inflammations, and the gout. The charcoal 

 used in strumous tumours. 



12. AROIDEiE. 



*Wake robin, Cuckoiu pint, Barha Aaronis, Serpentaria 

 minor. Zingiber album, Z. Germanicum, Arum, A, maculatum. 

 Root acrid, incisive, detersive ; gr. x. to 3j of the fresh root made 

 into an emulsion with gum Arabic and spermaceti, taken three 

 or four times a day, useful in obstinate rheumatisms : has been 

 used in washing, instead of soap; but unless the juice is well 

 separated, it frets and chaps the hands of the laundresses. 



Arum dracontium, Drax^ontium pertusum. Dropsical patients 

 are covered with the fresh leaves, which produce a slight, but 

 universal vesication. 



Indian turnip, Arum tryphyllum. A, ringens. Root. 



Dragon root, Arum, P. U. S. Boiled in milk used in 

 phthisis. 



Arum peregrinum : — A, macrorhizon ; — A. Virginicum ; — 

 Arisarum Amboinum, A. trilobatum. ; — Ncelenschena, Arum diva- 

 ricatum ; — Calcas, Kachoo, Colocasia, Arum colocasia ; — Friar's 

 COWL, Arisarum, A. tenuifolium; — Dragons, Dracontium, Arum 

 dracunculus ; — Maun Kachoo, Arum Indicum ; — 01, Bol, A. 

 campanulatum' ; — A. cordifolium; — Rumphal, A. Pentaphyllum ; — 

 A. mucronatum ; — Water Dragons, Calla palustris. Roots 

 used as food. 



Skunk Cabbage, Pothos foetida, Dracontium foetidum, Ictodes 

 fcetidus, Symplocarpus fcetidus. Root, Drojcontium, P. U. S. anti- 

 spasmodic, used in the asthma and hooping cough ; the root of 

 Veratrum viride is sometimes gathered for it by mistake. 



Indian Kale, Black cacao. Arum peltatum, Caladium esculen- 

 turn. Roots and petioles esculent. 



Eddoes, Toy OS, Arum sagittcefolium, Caladium sagittcefolium. 

 Roots imported from the West Indies, eaten boiled, the rough 

 coat being slit, and the pulp squeezed out, it tastes like soap. 



Dumb Cane, Arum regnium, Caladium seguinum. Roots used 

 in fomentation for the gout, or bruised with lard to rub on drop- 

 sical limbs; expressed juice of the stem and root with one fourth 



