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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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f Magnolia resemble thepresent very closely in their sensible properties,and as far as experiments have been tried, theyare similar in their medicinal effects. In orderto secure tlie whole efficacy residing in thesetrees, a tincture should be made from the bark orcones while green or very recently dried, beforetheir more volatile parts have escaped. 72 )>IAGNOLIA GLAUCA. BOTANICAL REFERENCES.Magnolia gtauca, Lint. Sp. pi.—Michaux, i. 523.—Pursh,ii. 381.—MicHAUx, fil. ^rb. forest, iii. 77.—Magnolia laurifolio subtus albicante. Catesby, Car. i. t. 39.—Trew, sel. t. 9.—DiLLENius, Hort, 207.1.168, /. 205.—Lauras tulipifera &c.—Uaius, hist. 1690. MEDICAL REFERENCES.Kalm, TravelSf i. 205.—Marshall, Arbustuiiif 83.—^Hum-phries, Jf/fd. Commentariesi vol. xviii.—Bart. Coll. 46.—Price,Inaugural Diss. Philad. 1812. PLATE XXVII. Fig. 1. Jl jlotvenng hranch of Magnolia glauca.Fig. 2. The fruit and seeds.Fig. 3. Stamen magnijied.Fig. 4. .i germ and style ditto. rijjnu
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CORNUS FLORIDA. Dogwood, PLATE XXVIIL T HE family of Cornels, if surveyed by oth-er eyes than those of botanists, is remarkablefor the difference of growth and appearance of itsvarious species. Many of them are shrubs ; a fewattain to the stature of trees, while some are sohumble in their growth as to be deemed hardlymore than herbaceous. A part have their flowerssurrounded with a fine white involucrum, manytimes exceeding the whole bunch in magnitude ;while others present their naked cymes unadorn-ed by any investment. To the botanical observerthey all exhibit a close affinity and resemblance toeach other; which is seen in the form and anatom-ical texture of their leaves, the structure of theirflowers and the appearance of their fruit.10 74 CORNUS FLORIDA. The Cornus jlorida, or flo^vering Dogwood, isthe largest and most splendid of its genus, and isone of the chief ornaments of our forests. As a treeit is rather below the middle stature, not usuallyreaching the height of more than t

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