4o6 Mr. Cutler's Account of indigenous Vegetables, 



BLUE-FLAG. The leaves are sword-shaped. Blossoms blue 

 variegated with white, yellow and purple. In wet meadows. June. 



A decoction of the fresh roots is a powerful cathartic, and 

 will sometimes produce evacuations when other means fail ; but 

 it is too drastic for common use. The juice of the fresh roots 

 may be given in doses of 60 or 80 drops every two hours. Dr. 

 Withering says the fresh roots of the yellow water flag have 

 been mixed with food of swine bitten by a mad dog, and they 

 escaped the disease, when others, bitten by the same dog, died 

 raving mad. The root loses most of its acrimony by drying. 



XYRIS ? Linn. Gen. Plant. 59. 



YELLOWEYED-GRASS. The corolla consists of three ovate, 

 patent, entire petals. The claws narrow ; of the length of the 

 calix. Nectaria three filiform filaments between the petals, 

 longer than the calix, terminating in numerous long hairs. 

 Three very short filaments rising from the petals in the mouth 

 of the blossom. Capsule membranaceous ; one cell ; three 

 valves ; oblong ; compressed on one side. The other parts 

 agree with Linncsus's description. 



The stem flattish ; naked ; erect. Radical leaves narrow ; 

 tapering to a point. Blossoms in an head on the summit of the 

 stem ; bright yellow. On banks of ponds. August. 



CYPERUS. Linn. Gen. Plant. 61. 

 Cyperus culmo triquetro, umbellce spiculis capitatis oblongis 

 sessilibus, involucris longissimis serrato-asperis ? Syst. Nat. 

 GALANGALE. In open swamps. August. 



SCIRPUS. Linn. Gen. Plant. 62. 

 Scirpus culmo tereti nudo, spicis ovatis pluribus pedunculatis 

 terminalibus. Syst. Nat. 



BULLRUSH. 



