Buckbean
the English name of menyanthes, a genus of plants belonging worts). Especially the name of menyanthes trifoliata, called also marsh trefoil. It has densely creeping and matted roots, ternate leaves, and a compound foil. It has densely creeping and matted externally with red, and beautifully fringed within with white thread-like processes. An infusion of its leaves is bitter, and is sometimes given in dropsy and rheumatism. In Sweden two ounces of the leaves are substituted for a pound and rheumatism. In Sweden two ounces casionally powdered and eaten.