Part 37

Windroot. See Pleurisy-root, 56–57

Witch-grass. See Couch-grass, 12–13

Woodbine, Carolina wild. See Jasmine, yellow, 51–52

Wood-fern, evergreen. See Male-fern, 11–12 lily. See Bethroot, 20–21

Woods-phlox. See Soapwort, 31

World’s-wonder. See Soapwort, 31

Wormgrass, wormweed, and American wormroot. See Pinkroot, 52–53

Yam, wild, description, 21–22

Yellow-eve. See Goldenseal, 31–33 root. See Goldenseal, Goldthread, and Twinleaf, 31–33, 34, 38–39

Yellows. See Lady’s-slipper, 23–24

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Footnote 1:

Phytolacca americana L. by right of priority should be accepted, but P. decandra L. is used in conformity with the Pharmacopœia.

Footnote 2:

Bulletin 51, Part VI, Bureau of Plant Industry, “Goldenseal.”

Footnote 3:

King’s American Dispensatory, Vol. I, 1898, from Berberidaceæ, by C. G. and J. U. Lloyd, 1878.

Footnote 4:

Bulletin 100, Part V, Bureau of Plant Industry, “The Drug Known as Pinkroot.”

Footnote 5:

Some authors hold that this plant belongs to the genus Leptandra and that its name should be Leptandra virginica (L.) Nutt. The Pharmacopœia is here followed.

Footnote 6:

Although the combination Taraxacum taraxacum (L.) Karst. should be accepted by right of priority, the usage of the Pharmacopœia is followed.

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