American journal of pharmacy . y;^iUiU)t>y ^? -q\. On Hemlock Resin. 23 of Paris from East Florida. Michauxs plant is a true ipomoea,and is called by him ipomcEa macrorhiza, or large rooted ipo-moea. Persoon adds a query to Michauxs description, whetherit is not the convolvulus jalapa of Linnaeus ? Desfontainesdescribed and figured the plant of Michaux, in the secondvolume of the Annales du Museum, as the officinal jalap, andasserts it to be a native of the southern United States. It isalso figured as such in Curtis Botanical JNIagazine, T. plant, which appears to be the co
American journal of pharmacy . y;^iUiU)t>y ^? -q\. On Hemlock Resin. 23 of Paris from East Florida. Michauxs plant is a true ipomoea,and is called by him ipomcEa macrorhiza, or large rooted ipo-moea. Persoon adds a query to Michauxs description, whetherit is not the convolvulus jalapa of Linnaeus ? Desfontainesdescribed and figured the plant of Michaux, in the secondvolume of the Annales du Museum, as the officinal jalap, andasserts it to be a native of the southern United States. It isalso figured as such in Curtis Botanical JNIagazine, T. plant, which appears to be the convolvulus mechoacana ofLinnaeus, is very probably that which yields the mechoacan,and which was formerly considered as a briony—BryoniaMechoacana Nigricans. As this root was frequently inter-mixed by the collectors with the true jalap, it is not surprisingthat Thiery de Menonville should have confounded the twospecies together, nor that Persoon and Desfontaines were ledinto the same error. These circumstances further render itprobable, that the plant whi
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