The treasury of botany: a popular dictionary of the vegetable kingdom; with which is incorporated a glossary of botanical terms . things,sheweth that he himself, in a certain epistlewritten to Adolphus Occo, hath often-times inwardly taken the roote heereofgreene, chie, whole, preserved with honie,and also beaten to powder, and thateven on the Aery same day in which hewrote these things, he had drunke, withwarme water, two drams of the rootesmade into fine powder, neither felt he anyhurt thereby. The fact appears to be thatthe leopards and other fower-footedbeasts were poisoned with aconite, o
The treasury of botany: a popular dictionary of the vegetable kingdom; with which is incorporated a glossary of botanical terms . things,sheweth that he himself, in a certain epistlewritten to Adolphus Occo, hath often-times inwardly taken the roote heereofgreene, chie, whole, preserved with honie,and also beaten to powder, and thateven on the Aery same day in which hewrote these things, he had drunke, withwarme water, two drams of the rootesmade into fine powder, neither felt he anyhurt thereby. The fact appears to be thatthe leopards and other fower-footedbeasts were poisoned with aconite, one of the authoi-s synonyms for Pardalian-ches : while the human experimentalistfound the powdered root of the latterplant inert. Leopards-bane is a robustplant, with large roughish leaves and con-spicuous yellow flower-heads. There areseveral species natives of Europe or Asia,some of which are cultivated as orna-mental plants. French, JDoronic; German,Gemsenwurz. [C. A. J.] DORSIFEROUS. Bearing something onthe back. DORSTENIA. A genus of moraceousplants named after Dorsten, a Germanauthor. It is associated with mulberries. Dorstenia ceratosanthes. and figs. The genus has a flat and some-what concave receptacle bearing numerousflowers. The staminate flowers have noperianth, but two or more stamens. Thepistillate flowers are also without a peri-anth ; the ovary is one-celled with a lateralstyle and bifid stigma, containing oneovule. The fruit-bearing receptacle be-comes somewhat succulent. There arethirty-six known species. They are herba-ceous plants found In tropical have radical leaves which are palmateor pinnatifid, and the receptacle termi-nating the scape is quadrangular orrounded, or occasionally linear and Contrayerva and other species have astimulant and tonic rhizome, which is usedmedicinally under the name of Contra-yerva-root. [J. H. B.] DORSUM. The back of anything; inthe parts of the flower, that surface whichlooks towards the outside. DORTAN
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