Medical botany. Containing systematic and general descriptions, with plates of all the medicinal plants, comprehended in the catalogues of the materia medica, as published by the Royal Colleges of Physicians of London, Edinburgh, and Dublin; together with the principal medicinal plants not included in those pharmocopoeias. Accompanied with a circumstantial detail of their medicinal effects, and of the diseases in which they have been most successfully employed / [William Woodville].

  • Woodville, William, 1752-1805.
Date:
1832
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Credit: Medical botany. Containing systematic and general descriptions, with plates of all the medicinal plants, comprehended in the catalogues of the materia medica, as published by the Royal Colleges of Physicians of London, Edinburgh, and Dublin; together with the principal medicinal plants not included in those pharmocopoeias. Accompanied with a circumstantial detail of their medicinal effects, and of the diseases in which they have been most successfully employed / [William Woodville]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    f ORD. I. Coniferas. pinus sylvestris. Class Monoecia. Ord. Monadelphia. Lin. Gen. Plant. 1077. Ess. Gen. C%. Masc. Cal. 4-phyllus. Cor. 0. Stain, plurima. Antherm nudae. Fern. Cal. strobili: squama 2-flora. Cor. 0. Fist. 1. Nux ala membranacea excepta. Sp. Ch. P. foliis geminis rigidis, conis ovato-conicis longitudine foliorum subgeminis, basi rotundatis. Hort. Kew. THIS tree grows usually straight, tapering, and to a great height, so as to be made into good masts for ships: the branches are nume¬ rous, divaricating, and like the stem covered with rough bark of a reddish brown colour: the leaves stand in pairs*, and are united at the base with the sheath; they are two or three inches long, convex on one side, concave on the other, very narrow, linear, striated, somewhat pointed, of a deep green glaucous colour, and surround the ends of the smaller branches: the flowers are male and female upon the same tree; the former stand in bunches without any calyx, unless the loose scales be considered as such: there is no corolla: the filaments are numerous, united at the bottom, forming an upright pillar, and furnished with erect antherse: the latter consists of a calyx, or common cone, which is small, composed of scales, with two Howers in each; the cones are oblong, imbricated, permanent, in¬ flexible: there is no corolla: the germen is very small, producing a tapering style, terminated by a simple stigma: there is no capsule, but the scales of the cone, which before stood open, close upon the seed or nut, which is supplied with a membranous wing. It is a native of Scotland, especially among the highland mountains, and hence named Scotch Fir. It flourishes best in a poor sandy soil. In black, boggy or chalky ground, or near stagnant waters, it does not thrive. The wood is used for various purposes, and the inner bark is, by the inhabitants .of the north of Europe, made into a kind of bread. Though most species of Fir possess in common the same medicinal