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, etc. . a gardener whose nostrils became swollenand seized with erysipelatous phlcgmasis, in consequence of thefumes only of this plant. The root of Tragia involucrata is reckoned 134 NAT. ORDER. EUPHORBIACE*. by the Hindoo doctors among those medicines which they conceiveto possess virtues in altering and cor
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, etc. . a gardener whose nostrils became swollenand seized with erysipelatous phlcgmasis, in consequence of thefumes only of this plant. The root of Tragia involucrata is reckoned 134 NAT. ORDER. EUPHORBIACE*. by the Hindoo doctors among those medicines which they conceiveto possess virtues in altering and correcting tlie iiabit in cases ofcachexia, and in old venereal complaints attended willi anomaloussymptoms. There is reason to believe that the timber importedfrom the coast of Africa into Europe, under the name of AfricanTeak, belongs to some tree of this order. From a species of a tree,stated by Mr. Brown to be an unpublished genus, it is said that asubstance resembling caoutchouc is procured from it. Euphorbiacorollata possesses, according to Rafinesque, emetic, cathartic, dia-phoretic, expectorant, astringent, rubefacient, blistering and stimula-ting properties. It is reckoned equivalent to the officinal Ipecac. Itpurges at the dose of three to ten grains, and vomits at ten to ? ^«K^^e^^, yt^^cU^ NAT. P^ONIA RUSSI. CRIMSON PEONY. Class XIII. PoLYANDRiA. Order I. Monandria. Gen. Char. Calyx five cleft, unequal. Petals five to ten. Sta- mcns indefiuate. Z>is/>; fleshy,Spe. Char. Floicers large, and of a crimson color. The 700^ of this beautiful exotic plant is long, creeping, sendingout numerous fine , and of a cream color externally, and whitishwithin; the stem, is upright, round, stiff, with from two to fourbranches of leaflets, and is terminated with a beautiful large blood,or crimson-red blossom ; the stamens are numerous, and of a yellowcolor; the leaves are long lanceolate, of a dark green on the uppersurface, almost grey on the
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