Polymnia. Polymnia uvedalia. Bear's foot.

Botanical name: 

Polymnia. Polymnia uvedalia L. Bear's Foot. (Fam. Compositae.)—A tall, branching plant, growing in rich soil from New York to Missouri and southward. Great virtues as a remedy in malarial splenic enlargements have been attributed to this plant.


The Dispensatory of the United States of America, 1918, was edited by Joseph P. Remington, Horatio C. Wood and others.