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This page states that certain wild plants are safe to eat. Its identifications and edibility claims are more than a century old and in some cases simply wrong, and deadly look-alikes exist for many edible species. Never eat a wild plant on the strength of this text.
In addition, this page prescribes plants as medicine according to pre-modern medical theory. Several of the plants named are toxic, correct identification is difficult, and the doses given have no scientific basis. Do not ingest or apply any preparation described here.
This information has been left in for historical purposes but should not be acted upon.
Asclepias
a genus of plants, the typical one of the order asclepiadaceæ.
The species are found chiefly along the eastern portion of North America, in Bermuda, etc. Though all more or less poisonous, they are used medicinally. A. decumbens, excites general perspiration without in any perceptible degree increasing the heat of the body. It is used creasing the heat of the body. It is used in Virginia as a remedy against pleurisy. cathartic and diaphoretic. The root and tender stalks of A. volubilis create sick- A. tuberosa ness and expectoration. (butterfly weed) and A. curassavica, sometimes but incorrectly called ipecacuanha, are also medicinal plants, while uanha, are also medicinal plants, while used by the Indians, etc.; hence the ordiused by the Indians, etc.; hence the ordi- nary name milkweed. A. aphylla and stipitacea are eatable. frontier town of central Italy, in the handsome place, well built and strongly fortified. Ascoli is the ancient Asculum of almost inaccessible strength. It sustained a memorable siege against the Romans under Pompey. Ascoli manutained a memorable siege against the silks, leather, hats, and cloth, and is factures majolica ware, glass, wax, silks, leather, hats, and cloth, and is 30,000.
ASCOLIO SATRIANO ASCOLIO SATRIANO (sat-re-ä'nō) a very ancient town of south Italy, in the province of Foggia, 13 miles S. E. of Bovino. It was here that Pyrrhus encountered for a second time the Roman legion, but with no decisive result to either side. It was destroyed by an earthquake in 1400. Pop. about 10,000.
ASCOMYCETES. See FUNGUS.