The British Flora: Or, Genera and Species of British Plants: Arranged After the Reformed Sexual System; and Illustrated by Numerous Tables, and Dissections, Volume 5author, 1812 |
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... dose , it has been found of great service in intermittent fevers . Haller affirms from his own experience , that a bath made of the decoction of it , proved very beneficial to children troubled with rickets . The inner bark has afforded ...
... dose , it has been found of great service in intermittent fevers . Haller affirms from his own experience , that a bath made of the decoction of it , proved very beneficial to children troubled with rickets . The inner bark has afforded ...
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... tree is always at hand , and the method of making the wine is simple and easy . I shall subjoin a receipt : In the beginning of March , while the sap is rising , and before dered , and given in large doses , cure the 10.
... tree is always at hand , and the method of making the wine is simple and easy . I shall subjoin a receipt : In the beginning of March , while the sap is rising , and before dered , and given in large doses , cure the 10.
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... doses , cure the Epilepsy . Cats are very fond of the smell of it . VALERIANA LOCUSTA . Corn - sallet . The radical leaves are used for this purpose . IRIS PSEUCEDANUS . Yellow Water Flower - de - luce . In Arran , and some other ...
... doses , cure the Epilepsy . Cats are very fond of the smell of it . VALERIANA LOCUSTA . Corn - sallet . The radical leaves are used for this purpose . IRIS PSEUCEDANUS . Yellow Water Flower - de - luce . In Arran , and some other ...
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... dose have an emetic quality , and the powder of the dried plant is a good errhine , and readily promotes sneezing . NEPETA CATARIA . Cat - mint . The plant has a bitter taste and strong smell , not unlike pennyroyal . An infusion of it ...
... dose have an emetic quality , and the powder of the dried plant is a good errhine , and readily promotes sneezing . NEPETA CATARIA . Cat - mint . The plant has a bitter taste and strong smell , not unlike pennyroyal . An infusion of it ...
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... dose . The bark is emetic . The juice of the unripe berries with alum , dyes a yellow colour ; of the ripe ones , a green colour . The bark also dyes yellow . CUSCUTA EUROPEA . Order II . Digynia . Dodder . It is a parasitical plant of ...
... dose . The bark is emetic . The juice of the unripe berries with alum , dyes a yellow colour ; of the ripe ones , a green colour . The bark also dyes yellow . CUSCUTA EUROPEA . Order II . Digynia . Dodder . It is a parasitical plant of ...
Palavras e frases frequentes
1-petalled 3-cleft 3-prominences 4-leaved abortive acrid acuminate agreeable Anthers astringent astringent quality bark berries bitter taste boiled branched Calyx Capsule cataplasm cattle chaffy Claf's Clafs Common Corol Corolla crenate Culm cure cylindrical decoction Digynia dimidiate DISCRIMINATING CHARACTERS diuretic drachm dropsy eaten as greens Echinophora emollient erect esteemed Exceptional Species fairy-queen fertile flat florets flosculous flowers fond found serviceable fruit Genera & Exceptional germen Glumes Gulm hairy herb Highlanders imbricated infusion inhabitants Involucre isle of Skye juice lanceolate linear many-leaved margin membranous Monacia Monogynia naked Nectary oblong obtuse OFFICINALIS ounce Panicle Partial Involucre PENTANDRIA Petals Petals cordate Petals inflexed pinnatifid Polygamia radiate rays Receptacle roots roundish Sect Seed compressed striated Seed ovate Seeds muricated sessile setaceous Silicle Silique simple smell smooth sometimes Spadix Spike Stamina Stem Stigma Sweden Tordylium tree TRIANDRIA Umbel umbelliferous Universal Umbel composed Vide Class Vide Genus villous vulnerary whole plant wood yellow colour young leaves
Passagens conhecidas
Página 28 - Yet mark'd I where the bolt of Cupid fell: It fell upon a little western flower, Before milk-white, now purple with love's wound, And maidens call it Love-in-idleness.
Página 4 - So fast they follow: your sister 's drown'd, Laertes. LAER. Drown'd! O, where? QUEEN There is a willow grows aslant a brook, That shows his hoar leaves in the glassy stream; There with fantastic garlands did she come, Of crow-flowers, nettles, daisies, and long purples, That liberal shepherds give a grosser name, But our cold maids do dead men's fingers call them...
Página 16 - Over hill, over dale, Thorough bush, thorough brier, Over park, over pale, Thorough flood, thorough fire, I do wander every where, Swifter than the moon's sphere; And I serve the fairy queen, To dew her orbs upon the green. The cowslips tall her pensioners be: In their gold coats spots you see; Those be rubies, fairy favours, In those freckles live their savours: I must go seek some dewdrops here, And hang a pearl in every cowslip's ear.
Página 28 - Fetch me that flower; the herb I show'd thee once: The juice of it on sleeping eyelids laid Will make or man or woman madly dote Upon the next live creature that it sees.
Página 39 - They also affirm that they are good against most diseases of the thorax, and that by the use of them they are enabled to repel hunger and thirst for a long time. In Breadalbane and Ross-shire they sometimes bruise and steep them in water, and make an agreeable fermented liquor with them, called cairm.
Página 48 - Col they are much esteemed, as answering in some measure the purposes of bread, they having been known fo support the inhabitants for months together, during a scarcity of other provisions. They put a yoke on their ploughs, and often tear up their pasture grounds, with a view to eradicate the roots for their use ; and as they abound most in barren and impoverished soils, and in season...
Página 11 - To every gallon of liquor put four pounds of sugar, and boil it afterwards half-an-hour, skimming it well ; then put it into an open tub to cool, and when cold run it into your cask ; when it has done working bung it up close, and keep it three months. Then either bottle it off or draw it out of the cask after it is a year old. This is a generous and agreeable liquor, and would be a happy substitute in the room of the poisonous whisky.
Página 11 - In the beginning of March when the sap is rising, and before the leaves shoot out, bore holes in the bodies of the larger trees and put fossets therein, made of elder sticks with the pith taken out, and then put any vessels under to receive the liquor. If the tree be large you may tap it in four or five places at a time without hurting it, and thus from several trees you may gain several gallons of juice in a day. If you have not enough in one day bottle up close what you have till you get a sufficient...
Página 2 - Lightfoot says that, in many parts of the Highlands of Scotland, at the birth of a child the nurse puts one end of a great stick of this tree into the fire, and while it is burning, receives into a spoon the sap or juice which oozes out at the other end, and administers this as the first spoonful of food to the new-born infant.
Página 19 - Linnaeus informs us, that the horses in Sweden, by eating this plant, are seized with a kind of palsy ; this effect is not to be ascribed to the plant, but to a coleopterous insect breeding in the stalks : in the winter the roots and stem, dissected by the influence of the weather, afford a curious skeleton or net-work. PHILADELPHIA, in botany...