. 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) . canis, Michaux, Flora, i. 198. PLATE LVIII, Fig. 1. Erythronium Americanum, the flower rather more droop- ing than common. Fig. 2. One of the inner petals. Fig. 3. Stamen. Fig. 4. Pistil. Fig. 5. Stigma magnified. Fig. C. Root. g i XANTHOXYLUM FRAXINEUM. Prickly Ash. PLATE LIX. JLhe Prickly Ash is a shrub of middlingheight, found in woods and mois
. 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) . canis, Michaux, Flora, i. 198. PLATE LVIII, Fig. 1. Erythronium Americanum, the flower rather more droop- ing than common. Fig. 2. One of the inner petals. Fig. 3. Stamen. Fig. 4. Pistil. Fig. 5. Stigma magnified. Fig. C. Root. g i XANTHOXYLUM FRAXINEUM. Prickly Ash. PLATE LIX. JLhe Prickly Ash is a shrub of middlingheight, found in woods and moist or shady decliv-ities in the Northern, Middle and Western is rare in Massachusetts and the states northof it, its localities being very I had taken pains to procure specimensfrom Connecticut, I accidentally discovered athicket of the shrubs in a wood in Medford, sixmiles from Boston. Late botanists have placed the genus Xan-thoxyium in Pentandrici Pentagynia, although itis dioecious, or rather polygamous. Its calyx isinferior, jive parted; corolla none ; capsules fromthree to jive, one seeded. The X. fraxineum isprickly, the leaves pinnate ; leafels ovale, suben-tire, sessile, equal at base; umbels axillary. y. w u
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