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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
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n06s. Fhys. Chenu 31.—Cuulen, J^Iat. Med. ii. 200.—Clayton,Phil. Trans. Mr. viii. 332.—Bremane, Sassafrasologia in 1627, PLATE XXXV. Fig. 1. Laurus Sassafras, a branch with perfect flowers of the natural sixe.Fig, 2, A stamen magnified.Fig. 3. Pistil, ditto. Fig. 4. Fruit, APOCYNUM ANDROSJEMIFOLIUM. Dog^s Bane. PLATE XXXVL Ahis is a branching perennial plant, foundfrom Canada to Carolina about the sides offencesand the borders of woods. It has a peculiarlyneat aspect derived from its smoothness, its leaf-less and coloured stalk, bushy top and delicateflowers. Like the other American species, it isa lactescent plant, with a fibrous bark. It attainsits flowering period in June and July. The genus Apocynum has a hell-shaped co-rolla ; a nectary of jive corpuscles surroundingthe germ ; anthers adhering to the stigma by themiddle ; follicles two ; seeds with down. The present species is glabrous, its stem erectand branching; cymes lateral and terminal; co-rolla spreading. Pf. XJC.WI.
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DOGS BANE. 149 Class Fentandria, order Bigynia ; natural or-ders Contortce, Linnaeus ; Apocinece, Jussieu. The Apocynuni Androsfemifolium grows oftento the height of five or six feet, though its com-mon elevation is three or four. Its stalk issmooth, simple below, branching repeatedly attop, red on the side exposed to the sun. Leavesopposite, smooth on both sides, paler beneath,ovate, acutCj on short petioles. The flowers growin nodding cymes from the ends of the branchesand axils of the upper leaves, furnished with mi-nute acute bractes. Calyx five-cleft, acute, muchshorter than the corolla. Corolla white tingedwith red, monopetalous, campanulate, with fiveacute, spreading segments. Stamens five, withvery short filaments, and connivent, oblong arrow-shaped anthers, cohering with the stigma abouttheir middle. The nectary consists of five ob-long glandular bodies alternating with the sta-mens. Germs two, ovate, concealed by the an-thers. Stigma thick, roundish, agglutinated tothe anthe

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