13. Adiantum.—Maidenhair.

Botanical name: 

13. ADIANTUM.—MAIDENHAIR. Adian'tum peda'tum Linné, an indigenous fern which has been used as a pectoral in chronic catarrh and other affections of the air-passages.


A Manual of Organic Materia Medica and Pharmacognosy, 1917, was written by Lucius E. Sayre, B.S. Ph. M.