. American medical botany: being a collection of the native medicinal plants of the United States, containing their botanical history and chemical analysis, and properties and uses in medicine, diet and the arts, with coloured engravings (Volume 3) . tentitled to hold a very exalted rank in the list oftonics. As a bitter it is at best but of the secondrate, and in astringency it falls below a multitudeof the common forest trees. The berries are recommended by the writersabove cited, as possessing the same tonic proper-ties with the bark. They certainly possess someactivity, which, in large qua
. American medical botany: being a collection of the native medicinal plants of the United States, containing their botanical history and chemical analysis, and properties and uses in medicine, diet and the arts, with coloured engravings (Volume 3) . tentitled to hold a very exalted rank in the list oftonics. As a bitter it is at best but of the secondrate, and in astringency it falls below a multitudeof the common forest trees. The berries are recommended by the writersabove cited, as possessing the same tonic proper-ties with the bark. They certainly possess someactivity, which, in large quantity, is not of thetonic kind. I have known sickness and vomitingproduced in a person by eating a number of theseberries found in the woods in autumn. BOTANICAL REFERENCES. Prinos verticillatus, Linn, Sp. pi.—Pursh, i. 220.—Prinos Gro^novii, Michaux, ii. 236.—-Prinos padifolius, Willd. Enum. , MEDICAL REFERENCES. B. S. Barton, Collections, ii. 5.—Thacher, Disp. 324, 146 FRINOS VERTICILLATUS. PLATE LVI. Fig. t. Prinos verticillatus, a branch in flower Fig. 2. Ripe berries. Fig. S. Calyx magnified. Fig. i. The rest of tJie flower ditto. Fig. 5. Stamen of the barren flower magnified. Fig. 6^ Germ of the fertile flower ditto. Kf. Jf//r<//ffr st v ca SABBATIA ANGULAEIS. American Centaury. PLATE LVIL Under the name of Chironia angularis, thisplant has been familiar to physicians in theUnited States as a native bitter. As it wants themost distinguishing characters of Chironia, whileit has others of a very different kind, particularlyin the anthers and stigma ; I have followed theexample of Pursh and others in referring it to thegenus Sabbatia of Adanson. This genus is characterised by a persistent calyx from jive to twelve parted ; a corolla from five to twelve parted; anthers finally revolute; stigma two parted, spiral; capsule one celled. The Sabbatia angularis differs from the rest of the genus in being erect, the leaves clasping, peduncles elongated a
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