Dbsoription'. — This common plant is found in moist woods, and is very common in recent clearings, where the groimd lias been burned over — whence Its popular name. It grows fl'om one to Ave feet high, has a hairy, grooved stem; a coarse looking annual, of rank smell; alternate simple 'eaves, lanceolate, acute, cut, toothed, sessile ; flowers white, in a large head. It was once called a sonecio. It blooms from July to September. Ofpicihal Pbepabations.— Tincture of the plant; dilutions. The o^;, and dilutions from it. Analogues. — Asarum, Cvieba, Copaiva, Erigeron, MtllefoKwa, Sabiiut, TriUium, Terebinthina. dbyGoogle BEECHTHITES HIEKACIF0LI08. 279