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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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^Eixi-OTT, Botany of the Southern States, i. 340. MEDICAL REFERENCE.EijiioTT, loc, dt, PLATE XXXIV. Fig. 1. Gentiana Catesbcei. Fig. 2. A Jlower xvith the corolla draxvn open to show the inner plicce.Fig. 3. Stamens and pistU in their natural situation.Fig. 4. Stamens separate.Fig. 5. Fistil. LAURUS SASSAFRAS* Sassafras Tree. PLATE XXXV. Almost every section of the United Statesproduces the Sassafras tree. It not only inhab-its every latitude from New England to Florida,but we are told it is also found in the forests ofMexico and even of Brazil. Its peculiar foliageand the spicy qualities of its bark render it aprominent object of notice, and it seems to havebeen one of the earliest trees of the North Amer-ican continent to attract the attention of Europe-ans. Its character as an article of medicine wasat one time so high, that it commanded an extrava-gant price, and treatises were written to celebrateits virtues. It still retains a place in the bestEuropean Pharmacopseias. /v.jfjurv.
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Artnat Ic Sj-M Sc SASSAFRAS TREE. 143 Xhe geniis of trees and slirubs known by thename o£ Lauviis comprises many of the most use-ful as well as celebrated products of the vegeta-ble world. The Bay tree or Laurel of the an-cients, the Cinnamon tree, Cassia tree. Camphortree, and Avocado pear, are either of them suffi-cient to give notoriety to the genus to which thevbelong. This genus has a calijcc of from four tosix divisions; nectary of three bisetose glands, orwanting; stamens variable in number; fruit adrupe ; flowers often polygamous. The speciesSassafras is polygamous, with leaves entire andlobed. The Laurels constitute one of the few generaassigned by Linn sens to his class Enneandria, tothe first order of which they belong. Jussieuhas placed them with his Lauri, to which theygive name. The propriety with which they havebeen associated with the Linnsean natural orderOleracece is of a very questionable nature. The Sassafras tree, of the United State, ar-rives, in favourable situ

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