. American medical botany: being a collection of the native medicinal plants of the United States, containing their botanical history and chemical analysis, and properties and uses in medicine, diet and the arts, with coloured engravings (Volume 3) . ur dependance on foreigndrugs. Linnaeus, in his Flora Lapponica, informs us,that in times of scarcity, sheep will subsist uponthis plant, notwithstanding its bitterness. TheLaplanders employ it as a substitute for hops toprevent acescency in their beer. They evenintroduce it in some instances into their bread,upon which Linnaeus bestows the epithe
. American medical botany: being a collection of the native medicinal plants of the United States, containing their botanical history and chemical analysis, and properties and uses in medicine, diet and the arts, with coloured engravings (Volume 3) . ur dependance on foreigndrugs. Linnaeus, in his Flora Lapponica, informs us,that in times of scarcity, sheep will subsist uponthis plant, notwithstanding its bitterness. TheLaplanders employ it as a substitute for hops toprevent acescency in their beer. They evenintroduce it in some instances into their bread,upon which Linnaeus bestows the epithet, ama-rus et detestabilis. BOTANICAL REFERENCES. Menyanthes trifoliata, Linn. Sp. pi.—(Eder. Flora Dan. t. 541. Curtis, Flor. Lond. 4. t. 17.—Woodville, Med. Bot. t. 2.— Smith, Engl. Bot. t. 495.—Michaux, i25.—Pursh, i. 139.—Menyanthes palustre triphyllum, Ray. Syn. 285.—Trifoliura palu-dosum, Gerard, em. 1194. MEDICAL REFERENCES. Murray, Apparatus med. ii. 33.—Linnjeus, Fl. Lap. 50.—, Hist. Stirp. Helv. 633.—Cullen, Mat. Med. ii. 52.—Thompson,Lond. Disp. 256. 60 MENYANTIIES TRIFOLIATA. PLATE XLVI. Fig. 1. Menyanthes trifoliata. Fig. 2. Calyx. Fig. 3. Petal. Fig. 4. Stamen. Fig. 5. Style. Fip:. 6. Fruit,. y/,/////■ //r///f/.i /////*■■>//.) RANUNCULUS BULBOSUS. Bulbous Crowfoot. PLATE XLVII. It is a remarkable fact that a great portionof the weeds, which are most troublesome in theUnited States, are of European origin, havingintroduced themselves since the discovery of thiscountry. Some of these emigrants have settledin our grazing and mowing lands, such as theRanunculus bulbosus, acris and repens, indis-criminately called Buttercups, Crowfoot, andFellow weed; the Chrysanthemum leucanthe-mum, or White weed; the Ruraex acetosella, orSorrel; the Hypericum perforatum, or St. Johnswort, §c. In our cornfields and gardens arcquartered the Couch grass, Triticum repens ; thedifferent species of Goosefoot or Pig weed, Che-nopodium ; the Bo
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