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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 (Volume 3)
Year: 1817 (1810s)
Authors: Bigelow, Jacob, 1786-1879 Annin, William B., 1791?-1839, engraver Coxe, John Redman, 1773-1864, former owner Annin & Smith, engraver Cummings and Hilliard, publisher Hilliard and Metcalf, printer
Subjects: Plants, Medicinal Phytotherapy
Publisher: Boston : Published by Cummings and Hilliard, at the Boston Bookstore, no. 1, Cornhill
Contributing Library: U.S. National Library of Medicine
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be re-moved from time to time, to admit the full actionof the cerate. Internally the leaves of the Juniperus Virgin-iana have been found to exert effects very similarto those of the Savin. They have proved usefulas an emmenagogue, and as a general stimulantand diaphoretic in rheumatism. They have alsohad some reputation as a diuretic in dropsy. The wood of the Red cedar is smooth, light,and very durable. Its alburnum is white, butthe heart wood of a beautiful red colour, whenceits name is derived. It is principally employedfor posts in fences, in which capacity it proves 54 JUNIPERUS VIRGINIANA. more durable than almost any species of woodused for the same purpose. BOTANICAL REFERENCES. Juniperus Virginiana, Willd. iv. 862.—Pursh, ii. 647 Mi- chaux,j^. ,/V. A. Sylva, t. 155. MEDICAL REFERENCE. Thacheh, Disp. 247. PLATE XLV. Fig. 1. Juniperus Virginiana in fruityFig. 2. Variety with long leaves.Fig. 3. Barren branch infloiver.Fig. 4. Barren anient magnified.Fig. 5. Scale and anthers.
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//,■ „,/„»//<■■ A;/:^;/ ME1NTYANTHES TR1F0LIATA. Buck Bean, PLATE XLVI. J. he Buck bean or Marsh Trefoil is one ofthose plants which are native in Europe andNorth America, with so little difference of struc-ture, in the two continents, that their specificidentity can hardly he doubted. I have com-pared specimens of the native, and foreign plant,without being ahle to perceive the least definahledifference, except in size ; the American beingsmaller. Yet, if we admit the statements ofbotanical writers, the plant flowers in England atleast a month later than it does in the neigh-bourhood of Boston, a circumstance not usual inother species of vegetables. The most spongy and boggy soils, which areinundated at certain seasons, and never whollydestitute of water, are the favorite situations of theMenyanthes trifoliata. It often constitutes large 56 MENYANTHES TRIFOLIATA. beds at the margin of ponds and brooks. It iscommon in New England, and grows, accordingto Pursh, as far sou

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