. 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, and the nymph to theflying insect above mentioned, which by eating its passage out leaves around hole; those galls which have no holes, are found to have tliedead insect remaining in them. Galls appear to be the most powerful of the vegetable astrin-gents, striking a deep black when mixed with a solut
. 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, and the nymph to theflying insect above mentioned, which by eating its passage out leaves around hole; those galls which have no holes, are found to have tliedead insect remaining in them. Galls appear to be the most powerful of the vegetable astrin-gents, striking a deep black when mixed with a solution of ferrumvitriolatum, and therefore preferred to every other substance for thepurpose of making ink. As a medicine, they are to be considered asapplicable to the same indications as the oak bark, and by possessing agreater degree of astringent and styptic jjower, seem to have an ad-vantage over it, and to be better suited for external use. Reduced topowder, and made into an ointment, they have been found of greatservice in haemorrhoidal affections; tlieir efficacy in intermittent feverswas tried by order of the Academy of Sciences; from their reportit appears that the galls succeeded in many cases, and also that theyfailed in many others, which were afterwards cured by Peruvian NAT. ORDER. Iridacece. IRIS FLORENTINA. FLORENTINE ORRIS. Class III. Triandria. Order I. Monogynia. Gen. Char. Corolla six-petalled, unequal. Petals alternate, jointed and spreading. Slig)?ias petal-form, cowled, Char. Corolla bearded. Sitcm with leaves higher than theflowers, often two-flowered. Flowers sessile. The root is j^erennial, ponderous, tuberous, branched, fibrous,somewhat compressed, externally brown, and internally of a yel-lowish white color; the leaves are sword-shaped, radical, insertedinto each other, pointed, shorter than the stem, and of a dull greencolor ; the stem is round, smooth, jointed, and about a foot in height;the jloxcers are large, upright, of a w
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