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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)
Dirca palustris, Leather wood, pp. [154]-159
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LEATHER WOOD.
count of the tenacity of its fibres it is difficult of
subdivision. After beating in a mortar it resem.
bles fine lint more than powder. Its vesicating
properties appear too feeble to promise much
utility.
I have introduced the Dirca in this place, not
so much because it has been yet applied to any
medical purpose of great importance ; but be.
cause it would be improper, iin a work like the
present, to pass over unnoticed a shrub of such
decided activity.
BOTANICAL REFERENCES.
Dirca palustris, Li. ,manitates academica, iii t. L 6. 7.-
DruAMEL, AIrb. vi. t. 212.-I PuSH, i. 236.-MICiAuX, i. 268.--..
BARTRAm, Tra1d, 309.-KAz~i, Th.Tes, ii. 148.
MEDICAL REFERENCE,
B. S. BARTON, Co11. 32.
PLATE XXXVII.
Fig. 1. .4 branch 'with leaves of Dirca paustris.
Fig. 2. A branch injfo-wer.
Fig. S. Frdit.
Fig. 4. Germ and style much magnifed.
Fig. 5. Magnijfled corolla, laid open.
Fig. 6. Flower nuzgnifted.
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