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CALAMUS, SWEET FLAG
Scientific name: Acorus calamus
Common names: Sweet Sedge, Sweet Rush, Sweet Root, Myrtle Grass, Sweet Myrtle.

Calamus roots are not only used, because of their strengthening effects, for overall weakness of the digestive system and flatulence as well as colic, but are also helpful for glandular disorders and gout.

CALENDULA, MARIGOLD
Scientific name: Calendula off icinalis
Common names: Pot Marigold, Mary Gowles, Golds

Calendula belongs to the plants which are beneficial in cancer and cancerlike growths.

CAMOMILE
Scientific name: Matricaria chamomilla
Common names: German Camomile, Wild Camomile, True Camomile, Scented Mayweed.

It grows on clay soils, arable land, hillsides, in glades, clover, potato, corn, and wheatfields. After snow rich winters and wet springs, it is found in abundance.

COLTSFOOT
Scientific name: Tussilago farfara
Common names: Horsehoof, Coughwort, Bull's Foot and Foalswort

When our meadows and hills show no sign of spring and the eye just barely notices the swelling of the willow-catkins, the Coltsfoot is the first to appear, sending forth its stalk with the yellow flower.

COMFREY
Scientific name: Symphytum officinale
Common names: Knit Bone, Boneset, Consound and Bruise wort

This medicinal plant belongs to our most indispensable and valued herbs, which nature has in store for us.

COMMON CLUB MOSS
Scientific name: Lycopodium clavatum
Common names: Vegetable Sulphur and Wolf's Claw

The Club Moss is a radium containing plant and easily distinguished by its widely ranging, rope-like ramblers and the yellow pollen of the spikes.

COWSLIP
Scientific name: Primula officinalis
Common names: Herb Peter, Key Flower, Key of Heaven, Fairy Cups and Paigles

The golden yellow blossoms of this variety of Cowslip have an honey-like, agreeable fragrance and, forming an umbel on a long stalk, rise out of the centre of a rosette of leaves.