. 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, e narrow, short, linear, and of a glaucous green color; it hasno calyx; the petals are six, oblong, hairy, of a dark purple color,and their apices turned backwards; the plaments are numerous, slen-der, about half the length of the petals, and furnished with yellow an-thers ; the germens are numerous,
. 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, e narrow, short, linear, and of a glaucous green color; it hasno calyx; the petals are six, oblong, hairy, of a dark purple color,and their apices turned backwards; the plaments are numerous, slen-der, about half the length of the petals, and furnished with yellow an-thers ; the germens are numerous, collected into a bundle, and sup-plied with long styles, terminated by tapering blunt stigmas; the seedsare placed on the common receptacle, and retain their styles, which,when the seed goes off^ resemble long downy tails. This species of the Anemone is a native of Germany, where itgrows wild in open fields, producing its flowers in May and informs us that it was first cultivated in England by , in 1731, both as an ornament and for medicinal purposes. Ilvery much resembles the Anemone Pulsatila, which grows wild in thiscountry, and would doubtless prove a good substitute so far as legardsits medical qualities. This plant, in its recent state, has but very little 36. NAT. ORDER.—MULTlSlLKiU-E. 37 if any smell, but its taste is extremely acrid, and when chewed cor-rodes the tongue and fauces; the dried plant likewise still retains aconsiderable share of acrimony. It has also been found upon chemicalexperiments to contain a camphoraceous matter, which was obtainedin the form of crystals, of an unctuous taste, and highly inflammable. Mrdkal Properties and Uses. This species of the Anemone,like several others of great activity, has been received into the Ma-teria Medica of the Edinburgh Pharmacopoeia, upon the authority ofBaron Stoerck, who recommends it as an effectual remedy for most ofthe chronic diseases affecting the eye, particularly amaurosis, catara
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