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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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gala polygama ?—Nuttall, genera, ii. 87. PLATE LIV. Fig. 1. Polygala rubellx^ Fig. 2. Jiflower. Fig. 3. Calyx. Fig. 4. Corolla magnified Fig. 5. Fruit of ditto. Fig. 6. Body of stamens. Fig. 7. Pistil, NYMPILEA ODORATA. Sweet scented Water lily. PLATE LV. J. he common Water lily, of North America,very much resembles that of Europe in itsexternal form, hut differs remarkably in the finefragrance of its flowers, those of the old continentbeing nearly destitute of odour. It belongs toa very beautiful tribe of aquatic plants, a greatpart of which are natives of the torrid zone.Those species which support the cold of ournorthern latitudes, are enabled to do so only bythe depth of water, under which it is their habitto vegetate. Nature has provided a sort of spon-taneous hotbed for these plants, by placing theirroots at such a depth from the surface of theelement in which they grow, that the frost, whichwould otherwise prove fatal, does not reach themat the coldest season. //./. r. *>.
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/ ///////// fry? 0 r/c to. 6z SWEET SCENTED WATER LILY. 135 The Nyrnphsea odorata, the finest of thenorthern species, grows abundantly in mostparts of the United States, about the edges ofrivers and ponds, where the water is more than afoot in depth. It is one of the largest of ournative flowers, and though it has often beenrepresented as inferior, in size, to the water lilyof Europe, I am sure that this comparison canonly have resulted from the inspection of culti-vated specimens. The annexed drawing wasmade from a full grown and fully expandedspecimen, and is actually smaller than the flowerfrom which it was taken. Every angler is familiar with the leaves andstems of this plant, which, with a few similaraquatics, forms floating beds about the edges ofdeep fresh waters, affording to the fish a favouriteshelter from the light; and often rendering themmore essential service, by entangling the hooksand lines of their pursuers. The roots of this plant creep through themuddy bottoms of po

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