34 A Medico-Botanical Catalogue of Plants, fyc. 



Home. Clin. Exp. and Hist. ; Bergii Mat. Med., L, 118 ; Me. et 

 DeL. Diet, de Mat. Med., t. VI, 864 ; Bull, des Sc. Med. de Fe- 

 rus., XVI., 341. Leaves demulcent and anodyne emollient ; 

 infusion administered on the continent of Europe, in catarrhs, 

 and decoction in diarrhoea, Among the poorer classes it is much 

 employed as a dressing for sores. Merat states that it is effica- 

 cious in colicks, ardor urinae, and, a watery distillation of the 

 flowers, in erysipelas. 



V. blattari'a.—Me et DeL. Diet, de Mat. Med., t. VI., 863. 



Verbena urticifolia, (Nettle-leaf vervain.) — U. S. Disp., 1304. 

 An antidote for poisoning by the rhus toxicodendron. 



Vernonia angustifolia. — Root used by negroes as a remedy 

 for the bite of serpents. 



Vicia sativa.—Me. et DeL. Diet, de Mat. Med., t. VI., S93. 



Viscum verticillatiini) (Misletoe.) — Le. Mat. Med., II., 456 ; 

 Me. et DeL. Diet, de Mat. Med., t. VI., 866 ; Journ. de Med., 

 LXX., 529; Lind. Nat. Syst. Bot., 50; Eberle "Diseases of 

 Children," p. 522. In infantile epilepsy, &c. 



Viola cucullata — Le. Mat. Med., L, 223. A decoction given 

 to children in eruptive diseases. Loc. cit. 



V tricolor Le. Mat. Med., II., 453 ; U. S. Disp., 743 ; Trous. 



et Pid. Traitede Therap. et de M. Med., t. II.. 15; U. S. Dis., 743. 



V.palmatta. — Ell. Bot., 300. Very mucilaginous ; employed 

 by negroes in making soup ; commonly called wild okra. Bruised 

 leaves used as an emolient application. 



Xanthium strumarium, (Burr, Burdock.) — Me. et DeL. Diet; 

 de Mat. Med., t. VI., 970; Diascoride's Lib., IV., 133. It has 

 been administered in scrofula ; properties not accurately ascer- 

 tained. 



Fern : 



Osmunda regalis.~h\nd\eys Nat. Syst. Bot., 400. "Has been 

 employed successfully, in doses of three drachms, in the rickets." 

 Op. cit. 



