. The native flowers and ferns of the United States in their botanical, horticultural and popular aspects . l, or the pistils, and thus we have thebeautiful petaloid pistils, which give such a peculiar characterto the Iris. Our plant abounds in Maine in the East, and in Minnesota inthe West, and is as much at home in Arkansas as in Florida,and throughout the whole of the vast territory of which thesepoints indicate the limits. According to Lindley, the Blue Flag is a diuretic, purgative,and emetic. Bartram, in his Travels, tells us that it was ingreat favor with the Indians as a powerful catha
. The native flowers and ferns of the United States in their botanical, horticultural and popular aspects . l, or the pistils, and thus we have thebeautiful petaloid pistils, which give such a peculiar characterto the Iris. Our plant abounds in Maine in the East, and in Minnesota inthe West, and is as much at home in Arkansas as in Florida,and throughout the whole of the vast territory of which thesepoints indicate the limits. According to Lindley, the Blue Flag is a diuretic, purgative,and emetic. Bartram, in his Travels, tells us that it was ingreat favor with the Indians as a powerful cathartic; and in-deed he intimates that its wide distribution is in a great meas-ure due to the estimation in which it was held by them formedicinal purposes. It has also been found useful in cases ofdropsy. In overdoses, it causes nausea, similar to sea-sickness. Explanation of the Plate.— i. Flowering stem, proceeding from tlie termin::! bud ofa rhizome of last years growth. — 2. Branchlct of the flower stem, with expanded flower.— 3. Faded flower. — 4. Cross section of the ovary. -3L ] Flatl I ? ..xix^GLOSP^^^^^ Rwr
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