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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
(1817)
Coptis trifolia, Gold thread, pp. [60]-65
Page [60]
COPTIS TRIFOLIA.
Gold thread.
PLA TE V.
THE dark sphagnous swamps, which in the
northern partb of our continent are covered with
a perpetual shade of firs, cedars and pines, are
the favourite haunts of this elegant little ever.
green. The coldest situations seem to favour its
growth, and it flourishes alike in the morasses of
Canada and of Siberia. On our highest mountain
tops it plants itself in little bogs and watery clefts
of rocks, and perfects its fructification in the short
summer allowed it in those situations. I have
gathered it upon the summit of the Ascutney in
Vermont, and on the Alpine regions of the White
mountains. It is here that in company with the
Diapensia and Azaleas of Lapland, the blue Men-
ziesia, the fragrant Alpine Holcus, and other plants
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