The American flora : or history of plants and wild flowers : containing their scientific and general description, natural history, chemical and medical properties, mode of culture, propagation , &c., designed as a book of reference for botanists, physicians, florists, gardeners, students, etc. . itant at the base,broadly linear, coriaceous, distichous, keeled at the back, glabrous,and of a yellow green color ; Scape terete, downy, curved at theextremity, and there bearing an ovate-oblong, green, glabrous, remark-ably compressed, striated spathc; flowers solitary, very large, threeto four inche
The American flora : or history of plants and wild flowers : containing their scientific and general description, natural history, chemical and medical properties, mode of culture, propagation , &c., designed as a book of reference for botanists, physicians, florists, gardeners, students, etc. . itant at the base,broadly linear, coriaceous, distichous, keeled at the back, glabrous,and of a yellow green color ; Scape terete, downy, curved at theextremity, and there bearing an ovate-oblong, green, glabrous, remark-ably compressed, striated spathc; flowers solitary, very large, threeto four inches across ; the whole richly spotted with white; the twoinner and latteral segments spreading, oblong, broader towards theextremity, yellow green, and pale at the base; lip large, saccate, richgreenish-brown without, and yellow within ; column of fructificationshort, terminated by a large, obversely cordate, yellow, slightly con-vex lobe, glandular below; beset with minute red hairs above ;beneath this at the base, are two short, latteral processes or filaments,to the side of each is attached a single, sessile, two-leaved, orange-yellow anther; its lobes rather unequal. Medical Properties and Uses. See pages 102 and 103, Vol. II.;and pages 68 and 69, Vol. III. of this work. Vol. iv.—122. ^2^A-^-^/i/.a^^^^ny^^?Zi/^ i€^a^e. NAT. ORDER. Eupliorhiace(£. EUPHORBIA ATRO-PURPUREA. BLOOD-FLOWERED SPURGE. Class XXL MoNOECiA. Order I. Monandria. Gen. Char. Tnvolucrum resembling a calyx, ventricose, the alter-nate segments petaloid. Filaments twelve or more, simple, eachconsisting of an anther. and Corolla very rarely three, two-cleft. Capsules three-lobed. Spe. Char. Stem simple, erect, smooth, round. Leaves oblong-cu-nate, obtuse, umbel-form. Capsules smooth. The stem in this plant is between three and four feet in height,frutesccnt, rather larger than the human finger, dichotomouslybranched above, bare of foliage (but copiously marked with thescars of the fa
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