i M'lin Botanical Ceitalegm sjf I } l>//i/s. 4 \- 10 



Menu Bays, "Cette apocynee' dea 6tata unfs passe pour fournif 

 le sue avec lequel les seuvages de ce pays empoissonnent leutt 

 fleches." One of the substitutes for colocynth. 



Hamamelis virginity (Witch hazle.) — Matson's Veg. Pract, 

 001 : I . 8. Disp. 1258, kpp. : Me. & de L Wet. de Mat. M 

 t. in.. 152; Coze's Am. Disp 310. I sedative snd discutient 

 in painful tumours, derived from the Indians - decoction uscdns 

 a wash in hemorrhoidal affections and opthalmia. The steam 

 practitioners employ it as an injection in Irritable hemorrhoids, 

 and during the bearing down pains of women. 



Helonias dioioa, (Common, Blazing star.- -Matson'a Veg. 

 Practice, 219; Ell. Bot L, 123; Lmd. Nat. Syst. 349; DeCand 

 A Duby, -17:>. An. 1S28. Infusion anthelmintic. Tincture 

 tonic. Prof. Ives recommends it as efficient m checking nausea 

 and vomiting. The Indian women employed this plant in pre- 

 venting abortion, and it is used by the steam practitioners for 

 debility of digestive organs, in doses of 1 J, tea-spoonful of pow- 

 der in warm water three times a day. It relieves coughs when 

 chewed. 



//. erythrosperma : (Fly poison.) — Ell. Bot. 421. ' A narcotic 

 poison, employed in some families to destroy the house fly. 

 Bulbs are triturated and mixed with molasses. The flies unless 

 swept in the tire or otherwise destroyed, revive in the course of 

 twenty-four hours."' 



Heucheraamerioana, (Alum root.) — Lind. Nat. Syst. Hot. 163 ; 

 Bart. II.. \h'i ■ ••powerful astringent." 



Hibiscus moscheiUos, (Marsh mallow.) — Beririi Mat. Med. II., 

 62 ( .». 



Hoped tinctoria. Ell. Bot. II., 177. Its leaves afiord a yel- 

 low dve. 



Hamulus tupulus. Ild. & Vav. Mat. Med.. 185; Chap. The- 

 rm, ev Mai Med. I., 349, and II.. 165. Eb. Mat. Med. II.. K) 

 U. 8 Disp., 374; Biff. Am. Med. Bot. III., 163 ; Preake Med. 

 and Phys. Journ. XIII., 132; Thompson's London Disp., 200; 

 Bigshy's Loud. Med. Renos. V. 97; Bryorly's Inaug. Diss. Phi- 

 lad. \n. 1803. Ives in Sillimah's Journ. II., 302; cit in B 



Hydrocotvle umbellata. Me. & de L. Diet, de Mat. Med. t. 

 III.. 560. Employed with great efficacy in Brazil against hypo 

 chondriacisni. According to one author, the root is so valuable 

 in dis of the kidneys, as not to be replaced by any other 



medicines; emetic, diuretic, and vulnerary. I see no mention 

 mad.- of it in the English or American Mat Mods. 



Hypericum soroJAra, (Pine weed, Orange grass.)— S to* 

 thra gentianoides of Mich.] Me. & de I-. Diet, de Mat Med. t. 

 \ I : Journ. de Med, l.\ \ V. 360. Employed a. an ape 



rient in inflammatory affections. 



lies cassena ] (of Ell. >See I. vomitoria of some authors, ('as 



