. 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, mulating qualities of Pyrethrum,there can be no doubt but that it may be found an efficaciousremedy, and equally fitted for an internal medicine, as many othersof this class now so extensively prescribed. Its use, however, haslong been confined to that of a masticatory, for, on being chewed,or long de
. 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, mulating qualities of Pyrethrum,there can be no doubt but that it may be found an efficaciousremedy, and equally fitted for an internal medicine, as many othersof this class now so extensively prescribed. Its use, however, haslong been confined to that of a masticatory, for, on being chewed,or long detained in the mouth, it excites a glowing heat, stimulatesthe excretories of saliva, and thereby produces a free is also a valuable external application for sprains, bruises, swell-ings, rheumatism, contracted muscles, tumors, etc., and for this pur-pose it is generally employed in the form of a neive ointment. Formany purposes it may be chewed, or employed as a gargle indecoction or vinous tincture. The dose, as a masticatory, is from30 grains to a drachm. In a very ancient but valuable medical work, published inLondon, in the year 1610, by William Salmond, M. D., we findseveral pages of this extensive English Herbal devoted exclusivelyto the medicinal virtues of this NAT. ORDER. Linacea. LINTJM USITATISSIMUM. COMMON FLAX. Class V. Pentandria. Order V. Pentagynia. Gen. Char. Calyx five-leaved. Petals five. Capsules five-valved,ten-celled. Seeds solitary. Spe. Char. Calyx and capsules mucronate. Petals crenate. Leaveslanceolate, alternate. Stem generally solitary. The root is annual, simple and fibrous; the stalk is erect, round,smooth, branched towards the top, and rises from one to two feet inheight; the branches are simple, alternate, and terminated by theflowers, which are solitary, and of a sky-blue color; the leaves arelance-shaped, acute, sessile, smooth, glaucious, vertical, and alternatelyscattered over the stalk and branches ; the calyx is divided
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