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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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-ed state. To insure a tolerably uniform activity of thismedicine, the root should be kept in dried slicesand not reduced to powder until it is wanted foruse. It may then be taken in pills or mixed withsyrup in doses of from ten to twenty grains.These may in most instances be repeated threetimes a day. BOTANICAL REFERENCES. Arum Americanum, Catesby, Car. ii. t. 71.—Dracontiumloetidum, Lin. Syst. pi.—W111.D. ii. 288.—Pothos foetida, Mi-CHAUX, Amer. ii. 186.—Pursh, ii. 398.—Bot. Mag. 836.—Sym-plocarpus foetida, Nuttalx, genera, i. 105. MEDICAL REFERENCES. Cutler, Trans. Amer, Acad. i. 407. Thacher, Dispensa-tory, 150, 7 50 ICTODES PCETIDTJS. PLATE XXIV. Fig. 1. Idodes fxtidus inflower, the spathe inclosing the spadicc. Fig. 2. The spadix taken out of the spatke. Fig. 3. The leaves, stalks, ^c. Fig. 4. The spadix in Jridt, one quarter being ciit away to shffw the seeds.Fig. 5. A flower magnified.Fig. 6. The same opened.Fig. 7. Petal and Stamen.Fig. 8. Style,Fig. 9, 10. Seeds,
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^ ///<r///f STATICE CAROLINIANA. Marsh Mosemary. FLdTE XXV. T HE class of vegetables, denominated mari-time, or sea sliore plants, are constituted to occupyextensive tracts of ground, which, from their im-pregnation with sea salt, are incapable of sustain-ing the life and growth of other species. The mu-riate of soda, if poured at the roots of the most vigo-rous plants belonging to a fresh soil, will often de-stroy them in a short time. Few forest trees of thetemperate zones can grow in marshes where theirroots are wholly exposed to the access of salt wa-ter. Yet such is the wise arrangement of nature,that this substance, which proves a poison to mostvegetables, is converted into the food and necessa-ry stimulus of the rest. Maritime plants flourishalike in places visited by the tide, and those im- 5a STATICE CAUOLINIANA. pregnated by the salt springs of the interior. Thedegree in which they require the presence of themineral is various, some growing upon the beach,where the earth

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