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Bigelow, Jacob, 1786-1879 / 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
(1820)
Illicium floridanum, Starry anise, pp. [76]-81
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ILLICIIUM FLORIDAN1TM.
Starry Anise.
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THE: same qualities Which entitle the Lirio-
dendron and Magnolias to a plaee among medi-
cinal plants, exist abundantly in the kindred genus
of Illicium. This family consists of fine, spicy,
flowering shrubs, one of which, the I. anisatum,
growing in Eastern Asia, derives its name from
the similiarity of its flavour to thatof Anise, a
quAlity which exists, though less simple, in the
subject of the present article. Another species,
the I. parviflorum, a shrub with small yellowish
flowers, first discovered by Michaux in the
mountains of Georgia and Carolina, has so
exactly the flavour of the Sassafras root, that they
are not to be distinguished by the taste. The I.
Floridanum forms beautiful thickets in the
country bordering on the north of the Gulf of
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