4o6 Mr. Cutler' s Account of indigenous Vegetables,

BLUE-FLAG. The leaves are sword-shaped. Blossoms bluevariegated with white, yellow and purple. In wet meadows. June.

A decoction of the fresh roots is a powerful cathartic, andwill sometimes produce evacuations when other means fail ; butit is too drastic for common use. Ihe juice of the fresh rootsmay be given in doses of 60 or 80 drops every two hours. Dr.Withering says the fresh roots of the yellow water flag havebeen mixed with food of swine bitten by a mad dog, and theyescaped the disease, when others, bitten by the same dog, diedraving mad. The root loses most of its acrimony by drying.

XYRIS ? Linn. Gen. Plant. 59.

YELLOWEYED-GRASS. The corolla consists of three ovate,patent, entire petals. The claws narrow; of the length of thecalix. Nectaria three filiform Filaments between the petals,longer than the calix, terminating in numerous long hairs.Three very short filaments rising from the petals in the mouthof the blossom. Capsule membranaceous; one cell; threevalves; oblong; compressed on one side. The other partsagree with Linncsus's description.

The stem flattish ; naked ; erect. Radical leaves narrow ;tapering to a point. Blossoms in an head on the summit of thestem ; bright yellow. On banks of ponds. August.

CYPERUS. Linn. Gen. Plant. 61.

Cypertis culmo triquetro, umbellce spiculis capitatis oblongissessilibus, involucris longissimis serrato-asperis ? Syst. Nat.GALANGALE. In open swamps. August.

SCIRPUS. Linn. Gen. Plant. 62.Scirpus culmo tereti nudo, spicis ovatis pluribus pedunculatisterminalibus. Syst. Nat.

BULLRUSH.