. The vegetable kingdom : or, The structure, classification, and uses of plants, illustrated upon the natural system. lent fmit, for the sake of whichit was long since introduced from Persia; and that of theWhite Mulberry, and other species, both Asiatic and American,is eatable though not esteemed ; but these fruits are not en-tirely harmless, causing diaiThoea if mdulged in too freely, andtheir roots are both cathartic and anthelmintic, thus indicat-ing the presence in then system of the acrid secretions of theOrder. There is also a Brazilian Ficus anthelmintica. TheMulberries contain mannite
. The vegetable kingdom : or, The structure, classification, and uses of plants, illustrated upon the natural system. lent fmit, for the sake of whichit was long since introduced from Persia; and that of theWhite Mulberry, and other species, both Asiatic and American,is eatable though not esteemed ; but these fruits are not en-tirely harmless, causing diaiThoea if mdulged in too freely, andtheir roots are both cathartic and anthelmintic, thus indicat-ing the presence in then system of the acrid secretions of theOrder. There is also a Brazilian Ficus anthelmintica. TheMulberries contain mannite and succinic acid, according to thechemists. Among other uses of less extensive application arethe following:—Dorstenia contiayerva,brasiliensis, opifera,andothers, have bitterish roots, and a remarkable overpoweringodour, Avith a little pungency. They are supposed to be anti-dotes to the bites of venomous animals, and certainly possessFig. CLXXXI. stimulant, sudorific, and tonic quahties ; but they lose them bykeeping, and soon become inert; they are also emetic, and are Fig. CLXXXI,—Dorstenia 268 HORACES. [Diclinous Exogens. employed for the same puiposes as Aristolochia Serpentaria. A kind of paper is manu-factured from Broussonetia papyrifera, whose fruit is succulent and insipid. The fniitof Maclm-a auiantiaca, (the Osage Orange), is as large as the fist, orange-colom-ed, andfilled with a yellow foetid slime, with which the native tribes smear their faces whengouig to war. The wood of ]\Iaclui*a tinctoria is the dyewood called Fustick ; it con-tains morine, a peculiar colouring matter; its fruit is pleasant, and used in NorthAmerican medicine, for the same purposes as the black Mulberry in Em-ope. Accord-ing to Martins, both it and other species of the same genus yield fustick in Brazil. Itis to be observed, that the latter name is also given to the wood of Rhus seeds of Ficus religiosa are supposed by the doctors of India to be cooling and a
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