The family flora and materia medica botanica: containing the botanical analysis, natural history and chemical and medical properties of plants . Rhubii rl) Rhitba rl) POLYGONACE^. Buckwheats. N°- 85 RHEUM PALMATUM. Palmated Rhubarb, Rhubarb. Place—Thrace, Scythia, Mongal, on the borders of ChinaQuality—Styptic, bitter, —Purging, astringent, —The root in diarrhoea, leucorrhoea, debility of thestomach, hypochondriasis, and vermifuge. BOTANICAL ANALYSIS. Natural Order. Oleracese.—L. Polygonaceae.—J. Class IX. Enneandria. Order Trigynia. Linn. Sp. PI. 531. Will
The family flora and materia medica botanica: containing the botanical analysis, natural history and chemical and medical properties of plants . Rhubii rl) Rhitba rl) POLYGONACE^. Buckwheats. N°- 85 RHEUM PALMATUM. Palmated Rhubarb, Rhubarb. Place—Thrace, Scythia, Mongal, on the borders of ChinaQuality—Styptic, bitter, —Purging, astringent, —The root in diarrhoea, leucorrhoea, debility of thestomach, hypochondriasis, and vermifuge. BOTANICAL ANALYSIS. Natural Order. Oleracese.—L. Polygonaceae.—J. Class IX. Enneandria. Order Trigynia. Linn. Sp. PI. 531. Willd. Sp. PL ii. 489. Woodv. Med. Bot. 662. Stephenson &Churchill 25. Loud. Ency. PL 334. Raf. Med. Flor. ii. 256. U. S. Dis. Med. Bot. 543. Per. El- Mat. Med. ii. 272- Beach. Fam. Ph. 671. Med. 129. Wood, Class Book, 473. Lind. Flor. Med. 358. Genus. RHEUM. This name was ingeniously supposed by Linnaeus to have been derived from fiita,to flow, because the root causes a discharge of bile. It nevertheless was formed fromRha the ancient name of the Volga. THE ESSENTIAL CHARACTERS. Calyx. Sepals united at base, imbricate in ges
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