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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
(1818)
Polygala senega, Seneca snake root, pp. Plate XXX-104
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POLYGALA SENEGA.
Seneca Snake root.
PLJTR XXX.
xT1E Seneca snake root has attracted so geno
eral an attention from the medical public, as to
have become an article of exportation to Europe,
and oe which holds a regular place in the drug-
gist The plant which produces it has
nothing to boast on the score of elegance, and
little to attract attention independent of its me-
dicinal virtues. It grows in most latitudes of the
United es, especially in the mountainous tracts.
The s en, from which our drawing was taken,
was gathered on the borders of Lake Champlain.
The genus Polygala has a fiv~e leaved calyx,
two of the leaves wing like, and colotured. Capsule
obcordate, two celled, and two ralred.
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