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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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Xanthoxylum, signifying yellowzvood, was originally given by Mr. Colden. The 163 XANTHOXYLUM FRAXINEUM. spelling has since been unaccountably changedto Zanihoxylon in a majority of the books whichcontain the name. The etymology, however, canleave no doubt of the true orthography. BOTANICAL REFERENCES. Xanthoxylum fraxineum, Smith, Rees* Cycl. JVo. 12.—Z. fraxi-neum, Pursh, i. 209.—Z. clava Herculis /3. Linnaeus, Sp. pi.—Z.ramiflorum, Michaux, Flora, ii. 235.—Fagara fraxini folio, Duha-tviel, Arb. v. t. 97. MEDICAL REFERENCES. B. S. Barton, Collections, i. 25, 52; ii. 38.—Thacher, Dispen-satory, sub Aralia spinosa. PLATE LIX. Fig. 1. Xanthoxylum fraxineum in fruit. Fig. 2. A barren branch in flower. Fig. 3. Fertile branch in flower. Fig. 4. Barren flower magnified. Fig. 5. Stamen, do. Fig. 6. Abortive germ of the barren flower, do. Fig. 7. Fertile flower, do. Fig. 8. Pistils of ditto, do. Fig. 9. Perfect flower, do. Fig. 10. Capsule, do. beginning to open. Fig. 11. Seed, do.
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HUMULUS LUPULUS. Common Hop. PLATE LX. Ihe Hop vine is not only a native of mostcountries in Europe, but is decidedly indigenousin America. It often occurs wild in the Atlanticstates, and was found, by Mr. Nuttall, growingspontaneously on the banks of the Missouri.Sir J. E. Smith has quoted an old distich, whichseems to be illu3trative of the period of its intro-duction into practical use in England, aboutHenry the VI Lis time ; although he has no doubtof its being really native in that country.* TheHop being a medicinal article of some conse-quence, and one generally retained by the Phar-macopoeias ; there is a propriety in introducingit in a Medical Botany of the United States. * Turkeys, Carp, Hops, Pickerel and BeerCame into England all in one year. I64f HUMULUS LUPULUS. The genus Humiilus, which has only a singlespecies, is found in the Linnsean class Dicecia,and order Pentandria. It belongs to the naturalorders Scabridae, Linn, and Urticee, Juss. Itsbarren flowers have a calycc

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