. 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, r ; the leaves are of a deeji greencolor, compound, and of a peculiar shape, generally divided intofive leaflets, and spring directly from the root by long footstalks;the leaflets are eliptical, smooth, coriaceous, and the upper halfserrated; xhefloral leaves, which are oval and concave, supply thepla
. 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, r ; the leaves are of a deeji greencolor, compound, and of a peculiar shape, generally divided intofive leaflets, and spring directly from the root by long footstalks;the leaflets are eliptical, smooth, coriaceous, and the upper halfserrated; xhefloral leaves, which are oval and concave, supply theplace of the calyx ; the petals are five, large, round, concave, andspreading, at first of a redish tint, but by age they turn green ;the nectaries are about eight in number, tubulated, somewhat com-pressed, bilabiated, and of a greenish yellow color; the filamentsare numerous, and white; the antliers are yellow: the germeiisvary in number, usually from four to eight: the capsules or many oval, shining, blackish, seeds. ^\{\s, plant is a native of Austria and Italy, but is found growingwild in Germany and many parts of Switzerland. It \\ as unknownto the gardners in England, until cultivated l)y Mr. John Gerardin 1596, where, if the weather be sufficiently mild, it flowers in 58. V^ ? ^ y. ./ f/i r-M€-C-i:^€^ NAT. ORDER. RANUNCULACE^. 59 January, from which circumstance it is sometimes :;alled, Christ-mas Flower. If any arguments were required to evince the neces-sity of botanical accuracy in discriminating medical plants, theHelleborus Niger would furnish us with many facts, from which sucharo;uments might be deduced. Many instances are recorded ofthe fatal effects of this plant, by which it since appears, that otherplants were mistaken for it, and actually employed ; of these wecan enumerate the Helleborus viridis, Adonis vernalis, TroUius eiiro-peeiis,Accea spicata, Aslranlia major, and Aco7iitujn napellus ; and asthe roots of these plants possess altogether di
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