Purple loosestrife, spiked loosestrife, purple lythrum, Lythrum salicaria. Loose-strife or purple willow herb, Lithrum salicaria. Used as an astringent and tonic. Handcolored lithograph from a botanical illustration by George Spratt from William Woodville and Sir William Jackson Hooker's Medical Botany, London, 1832.

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