This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1777 edition. Excerpt: ...it would be most proper not to give it in dysenteries till the morbid matter be first evacuated. A spirituous extract of the plant stands recommended in the sea-scurvy, for to strengthen the gums and fasten the teeth. Linneus informs us, that the Laplanders paint their leather of a red color with the ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1777 edition. Excerpt: ...it would be most proper not to give it in dysenteries till the morbid matter be first evacuated. A spirituous extract of the plant stands recommended in the sea-scurvy, for to strengthen the gums and fasten the teeth. Linneus informs us, that the Laplanders paint their leather of a red color with the juice of the roots. reptans 2. TORMENTILLA caule repente, foliis petiolatis. Sp.pl. 716. Pet. herb. t. 41./. 10. Plot. nat. ox. C. 6. . 7. /. 9./. 5.; Creeping Tormentil. Anglis. In barren grounds, but not common. Ssbbald. %.. VIII. It greatly resembles the POTENTILLA reptans, for the flowers have frequently five petals. GEUM. Gen. pi. 636. Cal. 10-fidus. Petala 5. Sem. arista geniculata. urbanum 1. GEUM floribus erectis, fructibus globosis villosis; aristis uncinatis nudis, fohis lyratis. Sp. pi. 716. (Ger. em. 994-/. i.Pet. herb. t. 40./. uBlakwell. t. 253) Common Aven% or Herb-Benner. Anglis. T In In woods and hedges frequent. %. VI. The root is thick, brown, woody, and of a conical figure, smelling sometimes in the spring like cloves: the leaves are hairy and pinnated, the two or three lowest pairs being very small, and the extreme one very large, and divided into three lobes: the stipulae are large, and deeply indented: the flowers are small and yellow: the beards of the feeds hooked. The root is astringent: an infusion of it in wine, or thirty or forty grains of the powder, is esteem'd a good medicine at the end of a dysentery. rivals 2. G. floribus nutantibus, fructu oblongo, aristis plumosts tortis. Sp. pi. 717-Sjst.nat. 352. (Ger.em. 995./. 4. Pet. berb. t. 40 /. 3) Red Water Avens. Jnglis. In wet and moorish grounds very common. %. VII. The flowers of this are pendulous: the calyces cylindrical, and of a dull red color: the...
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