SOME MEDICINAL WILDINGS 



of them may be made in the proportion of about an 

 ounce of the leaves to a pint of boiling water — the 

 dose, two or three fluid ounces of the liquid, repeated 



Wild Senna 

 (Cassia Marykmdioa) 



if needful. The American plant contains the same 

 general principles as the Old World species but in 

 less proportion, and is correspondingly less active. 

 It is a stout, herbaceous perennial, three to eight 



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