. 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, now directed for use by the Edinburgh college : theyare extremely mucilaginous, and are chiefly used, boiled in milk orwater, in emollient and suppurating cataplasms. Dr. Alston thinksthat the roots are of the nature, and possess nearly the propertiesof squills. Godorus, sergeant-surgeon to Clueen Eli
. 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, now directed for use by the Edinburgh college : theyare extremely mucilaginous, and are chiefly used, boiled in milk orwater, in emollient and suppurating cataplasms. Dr. Alston thinksthat the roots are of the nature, and possess nearly the propertiesof squills. Godorus, sergeant-surgeon to Clueen Elizabeth, it issaid, cured large numbers of dropsical people, by giving thembread in which the tulip roots were baked. I have myself admin-istered the tulip root in many cases of chronic inflammation of thebowels, and found it highly serviceable; also in inflammation ofthe kidneys and bladder, and many other diseases, where a diureticwas required, I have found it equally valuable. It possesses astrin-gent, diuretic, and diaphoretic properties. It was employed atone time, in Holland, to a great extent as a remedy fcr dysenteriaand long standing weaknesses of the bowels, but at the presenttime is but little known in practice, as many articles much easierobtained will answer the same 7 .^^^ ^^z<pa^2 .^^^^^^^^-^ ^.^m^^<m^^-^ NAT. ORDER. SenticoscB ROSA CANINA. DOG ROSE, OR HEP TREE. Class XII. IcosANDRiA. Order V. Polygynia. Gen. Char. Calyx, pitcher-shaped, five-cleft, fleshy, contracted atthe neck. Petals, five. Seeds, numerous, hispid, affixed to theinner side of the calyx. Spe. Char. Fruit, ovate. Peduncles, glabrous. Stalk and Petioles,prickly. This small tree usually rises from ten to twelve feet in height,dividing toward the top into many spreading branches, coveredwith a smooth bark, and beset with alternate hooked prickles; theleaves are pinnated, consisting of two or three pair of pinnae, or leaf-lets, with an odd one at the end—they are all of an oblong o
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