A Medico-Botanical Catalogue of Plants } frc. 33 



ploy the concreted oil extracted from the plant in manufacturing 

 cand! 



Taraxacum densleonis^ (see Leontodon of some 15 t.; Dande- 

 lion.)— Wai Pract. Physic, 39; Bell's Piact Diet., 445; 

 Royle Mot Med., 153; Pe. Mat. M. !.. 11.. I<»1: Ed. A Vor. ML 

 M 1. L84; l. s. Disp*, r06; Wilson Philip Dis. of Abdom. 

 \ isc ra; Le. Mat. Med , L, 396 ; Brande Diet Mat Med. and 

 Pharm.,632; Wood*. Med. Bot, 3'.». t. P*> ; DeCandolIePodro., 

 HI.,45; Bali. & Gar., 319; Bereii Mat. Med., II., 687 ; Me. et 

 D I.. Diet, de Mat Med., t IT., 87 ; English Physician, by N. 

 1 1 pepper, Student in Physic and Astrology, p. 109. "Jaundice 

 and hypochondriacal affections. 11 Aperient and diuretic in hepa- 

 titis and dropsy. See Wood v. Med. Bot It is spoken highly of 

 in chronic affections o( the liver, and used to some extent in the 

 composition of diet drinks. Eberle recommends it in chronic 

 cases of infantile jaundice, ("Diseases of Children.") The young 

 branches and shoots may be eaten as a salad. 



TUlandsia usneoides i (Common moss.) — Mer. et DeL. Diet, 

 de Mat. Med., t. VI.. 713; Journ. de Pharmacien, III., 185. Sto- 

 machic, purgative, and even diuretic; employed in hemorrhoids. 

 Loc. cit. We see no notice of it in til'- Am. Dispensatories. 

 Trifblium repens.— Ell. Pot., II.. 201. 

 T. reflc.ciun. — Affects very sensibly the salivary glands. 

 Trillium sessile. — Lind. Nat. Syst. Bot., 348. ' "Roots gene- 

 rally violently emetic." 



TriptereUa cam lea, (Blue tripterella.) — Lind. Nat. Syst. Bot., 

 331 : Nuttall in Act, Phila., 7, 23. 



Typha lull folia. (Oat tail.)— Me. et DeL. Diet, de Mat. Med., 

 t. VI.. 796; Journ. deChim. Med.. IV., 1? ( .> ; Journ. de Pharm., 

 XII.. 564. This plant has received a very extended notice in 

 the work cited. The root is eaten as a salad ; a jelly is also ex- 

 tracted from it. Aublet assures us it is good in gonorrhoea and 

 chronic dysentery. The bark has been employed in the fabrica- 

 tion of hats, and with cotton, in making gloves, and some have 

 recommended it in manufacturing china paper; see the Diet, de 

 Mat M 1. loc. cit. We would call attention to it. 



I 'huxs americana. — Mer. et DeL. Diet, de Mat. Med., t. VI., 

 Phil. Med. Museum, II.; Coxe Am. Disp., 611. It is pro- 

 bable he refers to the Ulmus fiilva, (Slippery Elm,) which grows 

 in the upper part of South-Carolina. I have seen it in Fairfield 

 District. 



I iniwm arboreum, (Farcle berry.) — Ell. Bot., I.. 496. Park 

 of root very astringent : used in the form of decoction, for chro- 

 nic dysentery and diarrhoea. Loc. cit. 



I /// thapsusy Mullein.)— IV. Mat. Med., II.. 295; I . 



15; Watson's Pract. Phys., 202; Royle Mat. Med., 



i; Le. Mat. Med., II., 146; Journ. de China. Med., t II., 223 ; 



