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Title: American medical botany, being a collection of the native medicinal plants of the United States, containing their botanical history and chemical analysis, and properties and uses in medicine, diet and the arts, with coloured engravings
Year: 1817 (1810s)
Authors: Bigelow, Jacob, 1786-1879
Subjects: Botany, Medical Botany
Publisher: Boston, Cummings and Hilliard
Contributing Library: NCSU Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: NCSU Libraries

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Ihave been able to observe, about one third moreof the Cassia marilandica is required to producea given effect, than of the C. senna. This ohjec-tion will prevent it from superseding the sennaof the shops, although the facility, with which itmay be raised in any part of the United States,will render it a convenient medicine where cheap-ness is an object. It is already cultivated ingardens for medicinal use, and the infusion anddecoction are considerably employed by familiesand country practitioners. BOTANICAL REFERENCES. Cassia Marilandica, Lin. Sp. pi.—Martyn, Cent, t, 23.—MiCHAUX, Flora, i. 261.—Pursh, i. 306.—^Nuttali, i. 280.—Cassia mimosse foliis, &c.—Dillenius, t. 260,/. 339. MEDICAL REFERENCES. B. S. Barton, Coll. 32.—Thacher, Bisp. 178,—Chap-man, Therapeutics. PLATE XXXIX. Fig. 1. Cassia Marilandica. Fig. 2. The three upper stamens. Fig. 3. The fourth andjifth ditto. Fig. 4. The sixth and seventh ditto. Fig. 5. The three lowest ditto. Fig. 6, A legume. PlXh
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NICOTIANA TABACUM. Tobacco. FLJTE XL, At the time of the discovery of America theTobacco plant was cultivated by the natives inthe West India islands and in different parts ofthe continent, especially those bordering on theGulf of Mexico. Whatever may have been itsnative climate, we need not trace it farther backthan this period; and can incur but little riskin considering it as indigenous to the southernparts of the United States in their present cnlaig-ed extent. (JVofe B.) It is an annual plant capableof perfecting its flowers and fruit in almost anypart of the Union, yet seldom found growingspontaneously except in cultivated grounds ortheir vicinity. 172 NICOTIANA TABACUM. The genus Wcotiiina has Si funnel-shaped co-rolla, zvith its border someivhat plaited. Stamensinclined ; stigma emarginate. Capsule ttvo-celledytwo or four-valved. The species Tabaciim^re-presented in our plate, has its leaves ovate-lanceo-late, sessile, decurrent; flowers panicled, acute. Class Pentandria, orde

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