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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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osus, the radical leaf of the largest size and more subdivided than common.Fig. 2. Radical leaf of smaller size and more common shape.Fig. 3. Petal and nectary.Fig. 4. Two stamens enlarged,Fis. 5. Fruit. ILLICIUM FLORIDANUM. Starry Anise. PLATE XLVIII. The same qualities which entitle the Lirio-dendron and Magnolias to a place among medi-cinal plants, exist abundantly in the kindred genusof lllicium. This family consists of fine, spicy,flowering shrubs, one of which, the I. anisatum,growing in Eastern Asia, derives its name fromthe similiarity of its flavour to that of Anise, aquality which exists, though less simple, in thesubject of the present article. Another species,the I. parviflorum, a shrub with small yellowishflowers, first discovered by Michaux in themountains of Georgia and Carolina, has soexactly the flavour of the Sassafras root, that theyare not to be distinguished by the taste. The I.Floridanum forms beautiful thickets in thecountry bordering on the north of the Gulf of
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STARRY ANISE. ^7 Mexico, and is often mentioned by the travellerBartram, with his accustomed enthusiasm, as oneof the chief beauties of that exuberant region.In the Northern states, as well as in Europe, itis preserved by artificial heat. The drawing,which illustrates our description, was made froma greenhouse specimen. The character assigned to this genus isformed by a six leaved calyx, twenty seven petals,and a number of capsules arranged in a circle, twovalved, one seeded. The species Floridunum hasits leaves acuminate and its petals numerous,oblong and linear. The class and order are Folyandria, Polygy-ria; and the Natural orders Coadunatw, Linn.Magnolice, Juss. The Illicium Floridanum is a shrub, in someinstances entitled to be considered a small tree.Its leaves are scattered, or grow in tufts, on shortpetioles. They are evergreen, oval lanceolate,slightly acuminate, entire, smooth on both sides,and firm or fleshy. The flower buds proceed fromthe sides of the branches at the axil

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