The family flora and materia medica botanica: containing the botanical analysis, natural history and chemical and medical properties of plants . -Z. APOCYffUM ANBROsiiNIPOlilFM. Doy>ibane<, Sitter-root, Milkweeds APOCYIACE^.Pq g banes. N°- ANDROSJEMIFOLIUM. Dogsbane. Bitter root. Milkweed, Indian hemp, Place—America. Quality—Bitter. Power—Tonic, vermifuge. Use—Dropsy, intermittent fever, syphilis. BOTANICAL ANALYSIS. Natural Order. Contortea^—L. Apocynaceae—5. Class V. Pentandria. Order Digynia. Lin. Sp. PL 311. Wilkl. Sp. &? • 1259. Bigelow Med. Bot. ii. 148. Fior.
The family flora and materia medica botanica: containing the botanical analysis, natural history and chemical and medical properties of plants . -Z. APOCYffUM ANBROsiiNIPOlilFM. Doy>ibane<, Sitter-root, Milkweeds APOCYIACE^.Pq g banes. N°- ANDROSJEMIFOLIUM. Dogsbane. Bitter root. Milkweed, Indian hemp, Place—America. Quality—Bitter. Power—Tonic, vermifuge. Use—Dropsy, intermittent fever, syphilis. BOTANICAL ANALYSIS. Natural Order. Contortea^—L. Apocynaceae—5. Class V. Pentandria. Order Digynia. Lin. Sp. PL 311. Wilkl. Sp. &? • 1259. Bigelow Med. Bot. ii. 148. Fior. i. 49. Griff. Med. Bot. 449. Per. El. Med. Bot. ii. 375. Genus. APOCYNUM. Fiom the Greek Apo, away, and Kunos, a dog; that is to say, a plant fromwhich dogs must he driven. Pliny says his Apocynum is mortal to them. Synonymes.—Lapocin (F.), Der hundekohl (Ger.), Hondsdood (Dutch), Apo-cino (/.), Apocino (S.), Hundedod (Dan.) THE ESSENTIAL CHARACTERS. Calyx. Sepals five, united at base, persistent. Corolla. Five-lobed, regular, twisted in aestivation, deciduous. ?Stamens. Five, arising from the corolla and alternate wi
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