. 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, They are said to possess carminative,emmcnagogue, and in some measure antispasmodic and anodyneproperties. In England they have been long and successfullyemployed for the cure of intermittent, and nervous fevers accom-panied with visceral obstructions. That the flowers may be safelysubstituted for per
. 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, They are said to possess carminative,emmcnagogue, and in some measure antispasmodic and anodyneproperties. In England they have been long and successfullyemployed for the cure of intermittent, and nervous fevers accom-panied with visceral obstructions. That the flowers may be safelysubstituted for peruvian bark in the cure of intermittent fevers,appears from the experience and testimony of many respectablephysicians, to which we may add that of Dr. Cullen, who sa\^ Ihave employed these flowers by giving several times during theintermission, from half a drachm to a drachm of the flowers in pow-der, have cured manv cases of intermittent fevers from their use;but have found, however, that the flowers were attended with thisinconvenience, that is, given in a large quantity, they readily run offby stool, defeating thereby the purpose of preventing the return ofparoxysms. I have used this in connexion with an opiate or anastringent, that the patient might receive the full benefit of /; cya^iJ^c^^>9t 2, tjl/i€^ NAT. ORDER. PassifloTcce. PASSIFLORA CCERULEA. THE PASSION FLOWER. Class XVI. MoNADELPHiA. OrdcT II. Pentandria. Gen. Char. Petals five. Cotyledons two. Stamens five, insertedinto the calyx. Corolla with an imbricated aestivation, glandularleaves. Sjie. Char. Ovarmm seated on a long stalk. Fruit surrounded bythe calyx, one-celled, three-valved. Seeds attached. Flowersterminal. This beautiful plant is the pride of South America and the WestIndies, where the forests are filled with their numerous and splendidvarieties, which spread themselves from tree to tree, bearing innu-merable quantities of flowers of striking beauty and singularity; in-deed such was the esti
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