Identifier: 2543055RX3.nlm.nih.gov
Title: 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)
Year: 1817 (1810s)
Authors: Bigelow, Jacob, 1786-1879 Annin, William B., 1791?-1839, engraver Coxe, John Redman, 1773-1864, former owner Annin & Smith, engraver Cummings and Hilliard, publisher Hilliard and Metcalf, printer
Subjects: Plants, Medicinal Phytotherapy
Publisher: Boston : Published by Cummings and Hilliard, at the Boston Bookstore, no. 1, Cornhill
Contributing Library: U.S. National Library of Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Open Knowledge Commons, U.S. National Library of Medicine

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GULARIS. this, I have no experience with it. It may begiven in substance or in infusion, but the lattermode is generally preferred. This form is onein which it appears to be largely used by physi-cians in the Middle states. Dr. Chapman tellsus, it is resorted to extensively by every class ofpractitioners, regular and irregular, in the inter-mittent and remittent fevers. He thinks it hasthe advantage over Peruvian bark of being sus-ceptible of employment in every stage of thesediseases. BOTANICAL REFERENCES. Sabbatia angularis, Pursh, Flora Amer. i. 137.—Elliott, Florai. 285.—Chironia angularis, Willd. Sp. pi. i. 1067.—Michaux.,Flora, i. 146. MEDICAL REFERENCES. B. S. Barton, Coll, i. 15.—Chapman» Therapeutics,, ii. 417.—Elliott, I. c. supra. PLATE LVIL Fig. 1. Sabbatia angularis. Fig. 2. The stamen before it bursts, magnified. Fig. 3. Stamen after bursting, do. Fig. 4. Pistil magnified with the stigmas not yet twisted. Fig. 3. Do. the stigmas having become spiral, PZ. Lllll
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?, •;//■// /// , ,,/ ? f, 16CO, //// /J/ ERYTHRONIUM AMERICANUM. Common Erythronium. PLATE LVIII. loRa considerable time the genus Erythro-nium was considered as containing only onespecies, the E. dens canis of Europe and Asia.The American plant was considered, by Michaux,as a variety of the European, differing only incolour. Later botanists have, with propriety,separated it, and besides this, one or two otherAmerican species have been added to the genus.* The natural order, called Liliacew by Linnaeus,and Lilia by Jussieu, is perhaps not exceeded byany other, in the uniform elegance of all its spe- * My friend Mr. F. Boott discovered a new species of Erythro-nium on the Camels rump mountain in Vermont, which he calls E.bracteatum. Its character is E. foliis incequalibus, scapo bracteato.In all the specimens gathered by that gentleman, the leaves werevery unequal, one being twice the size of the other; the scape hadalso a lanceolate bracte near the top. The flower was yellow andab

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