16 Bigelow on the Medical Botany of Ohio. [Nov. 



Order XXV.— UMBELLIFERiE. {Parsley Family.) 



This is an important order, and well represented in our 

 Dispensatories; but the American species are sadly neglected 

 by our physicians. 



Sp. 68. Sium latifolium. Linn. 



Com. name — Broad-leafed Water Parsnip. Plant 2° — 5° 

 high. Leaflets 7 — 11. — July, Sept. 



Deleterious plant, yet deemed diuretic, emmenagogue, her- 

 petic and lithontriptic. Leaves used for obstinate cutaneous 

 diseases, 6 spoonfuls of juice in a day, said not tohurt the head, 

 stomach, nor bowels. — (Rafinesque Med. Flor. Vol. II. 264.) 



Sp. 69. OSMORRHIZA LONGISTYLIS. D. C. 



Com. name — Sweet Cicely. Plant3° high, branching. — May, 

 June. 



Sweet aromatic, much of the flavor of Anise. 

 Sp. 70. Thaspium barbinode. Nutt. 



Com. name — Meadow Parsnip. Flowers yellow; fruit elip- 

 tical. — June. 



Sp. 71. Thaspium atropurpureum. Nutt. Syn. Th. Cordatum. 



Torr. and Gr. * 



Com. name — Round Heart. Flowers dark-purple; stem 1° 

 — 2° high.— June. 



Vulnary, anti-syphilitic, sudorific, antidote to Rattle-snake 

 bites. — (Rafinesque, 267.) This is an active genus of plants, 

 and deserves to be studied and examined. 



Sp. 72. Angelica lucida. Linn. 



Com. names — Angelic root, Belly-ache root, Nendo, White 

 root. Introduced — bitterish, sub-acrid, fragrant, aromatic, 

 stomachic and tonic. — (Rafinesque, 192.) I have ventured to 

 put it down an Ohio plant on the authority of Riddell. 



Order XXVI.— CAPRIFOLIACE^. (Honey Suckle Family.) 

 Not an active order, yet grouped and closely allied to those 

 that are. 



Tribe I.— LONICERjE. (Honey Suckle Tribe.) 

 Sp. 73. Symphoricarpus racemosus. Michx. 



Com. name — Snowberry. Berries large, bright-white, re- 

 maining till Winter. — June, September. 



Root tonic, astringent, used for agues in Virginia. Bark 

 used for syphilis by western tribes. Active fibrifuge in small 

 doses. — (Rafinesque, 266.) 



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