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. . (^<x 2-aJ^y^^/ e^^r/as^i-c^/Mr/^(^ . ? NAT. ORDER. LOMENTACEiE. 35 Barton) appear on examination, that such situations are exsiccatedswamps or meadows. It delights in a low, moist, gravelly, or sandy-soil, prefeiTing the borders of rivers, creeks, and such watery places,to any other situations ; and
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. . (^<x 2-aJ^y^^/ e^^r/as^i-c^/Mr/^(^ . ? NAT. ORDER. LOMENTACEiE. 35 Barton) appear on examination, that such situations are exsiccatedswamps or meadows. It delights in a low, moist, gravelly, or sandy-soil, prefeiTing the borders of rivers, creeks, and such watery places,to any other situations ; and flowers from the last of June to the firstof August. It was said to be introduced into England in the year1723, by Peter Collinson, Esq., where it flowered from August tillOctober. The geneiic name of this plant is of Asiatic origin, and wasfirst brought into Greece alonsf ^vith the commercial article which itdenoted, by the Phoenician merchants. The specific appellation wasgiven by Linnseus, in conformity with the common custom, of whichlater discoveries have shown the impropriety; thatof naming a newspecies of any genus, from the particular place whence it was sent tohim. Though the first specimens of Cassia Marilandlca were trans-mitted to Linnaeus from the state of Maryland, the
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