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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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tual fondness for chewing it. It is certainlyone of the most innocent articles for this purpose. BOTANICAL REFERENCES. Panax quinqiicfolium, Lin. sp. pi.—Michaux, Flora, ii. 256.—^PuRSH, i. 191.—WooDviLLE, Mctl, BoL i. t. 58.—BotanicalMag. t. 1023.—Aureliana Canadensis, Catesby, Car. Suppl. t,16.—Bretnius in Prod. rar. p, 52.—Araliastrum foliis ternisquinquepartitis. Ginseng sen Ninsin officinariim.—Trew, Ehr, MEDICAL REFERENCES. BouRDELiN, Hist, de IJcad. 1797.—Jartoux, tr. in Phil, Trans,xxviii. 237.—Lafiteau, Jlemoires concernant la precieuse plant&de Ginseng. Paris, 1718.—Sarrasin, Hist. Acad. 1718.—Kalm,travelsf tr. iii. 114.—Osbeck, China, p. 145.—Heberdex, Med.Trans, iii. 34.—Fotuergill, Gent, Mag, xxiii. 209.—Cuilex,Mat, Mai. Vol. ii, kc. 96 PANAX qUINqUEFOLIUM. PLATE XXIX. Fig. 1. Panax quinquefolium. Fig. 2. A Jlower magnified. Fig. 3. Umbel in Jlower, the external fruit nearly grown. Fig. 4. Germ, calyx and styles magnified. Fig. 5. Root.
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0^ m Jyf>€^/jMr.rf/fnt o^<f-?/?/yw POLYGALA SENEGA Seneca Snake root. PLATE XXX, HE Seneca snake root has attracted so gen-eral an attention from the medical public, as tohave become an article of exportation to Europe,and one which holds a regular place in the drug-gist stores. The plant which produces it hasnothing to boast on the score of elegance, andlittle to attract attention independent of its me-dicinal virtues. It grows in most latitudes of tlieUnited States, especially in the mountainous tracts.The specimen, from which our drawing was taken,was gathered on the borders of Lake Champlain.The genus Polygala has a five leaved calycc,two of the leaves wing like, and coloured. Capsulenhcordate. two celled, and two valved.13 1)8 rOLYCALA SENEGA. The species Senega has erect^ smooth^ simplestems, with alternate, lanceolate leaves, broadest atbase. Flowers slightly crested. Class Biadelphia, order Octandria; naturalorders Lomeniacece, Limi. Pediculares, Juss. The Poljgala sen

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