178 Chenopodium. 
Locus. Penfyivania, ad vias,, folo arenofo. 
Perenne ♦ 
FORMA . Semina parva, fubrotunda, pauliu- 
lum comprefla, fulca , fplendentia* 
PROPR. Semina graveolenti-fragrantia. 
VIRTUS: anthelminthica* 
USUS . Lumbrici. 
OBS. Fu 3 e ck P. Kalm htecce (emina exciro * ufpo* 
te in Penfylvailia communiflimi ufus; ex propria expe¬ 
rientia nihil de illis (latuere podium 
109. BETA vulgaris. Linn. Sp.pl. 322. Mat.med . 
3/3. Kniph. Botan . o/\ zv/tf. /0. /2. 
Beta rubra vulgaris. Dod. Pernpt * Lob# 
Hi fi. 124. BlackW. Herb. t+ 23/. 
Culinis BETAS RUBRA Radix. 
Locus. Colitur ubique. Biennis . 
FORMA, ree-. Radix fufiformis, CfalTa, fpi- 
thamsea, purpurea, tiansverlhiiter riigofa: rugis 
annularibus, obfoletis; parencymate carnolo, fuc- 
culento, fubtunicato, purpureo, ttansverfaliter 
fedo ex ailiiulis albidis & purpureis variegato; 
centro medullari fubrotundo, albido. 
PROPRIET . recent . < 9 r/or debilior. SV//wr 
duicdcens , aromatico - fatuus* Maflicata com¬ 
minuitur, aquola (entitnr, faiiva violacea. Sic¬ 
cata radix friabilis, cellulofa, rubro-purpurea, 
vix odorata; maflicata iri ore emollitur, iapore 
dulceicente* lalivam rubro - purpurascentem ta- 
ciens: 
VIRTUS: rec. nutriens, refrigerans, mucila- 
ginofa; Succi: errhina. 
OBS . 1. Infufum aquofum radicis ficcatae fangvineum» 
rnucilaginofum, fere ut mucilago feminis Lini, dulce- 
kens, fapore Betge; vitrioio martis non mutatur. Ra¬ 
dices 
