560. Polymnia uvedalia.—Bearsfoot.

Botanical name: 
Smallanthus uvedalius

560. POLYMNIA UVEDALIA Linné.—BEARSFOOT. An indigenous plant, the root of which, in ointment form, has had virtues ascribed to it as a discutient and anodyne, particularly in the treatment of malarial splenic enlargements.

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