This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1776 Excerpt: ...come t perfection the second year. Bark reddijb. Berries when ripe, red. Taxus. Gerard. 1370. Park. 1412. Bauh. pin. 505. Bay's Sy;i. 441;. Yew Tree. On mountains. S. March--April. Varieties. j. Leaves broad and shining. . Leaves variegated. It grows belt in a moist loamy foil. On bogs or dry mountains it languishes. It bears transplanting even when old. It is often planted to make hedge-;, and as these hedges admit of clipping, they form excellent skreens to keep off the cold winds from tender plants--The wood is hard, smooth, and beautifully veined with red. It is converted into bows, axle-trees, spoons, cups, cogs for mill wheels and flood-gates for fish-ponds which hardly ever decay--The berries are sweet, and viscid. Children often eat them in large quantities without any inconvenience--The fri sli leaves are fatal to the human specie: '. Cattle are sometimes killed by browsing upon the branches that are cut oif and are half withered, but when growing it is doubtful whether whether such an effect would follow. Indeed from the Upsal experiments it appears that neither Cows nor Horses will eat it in a recent state. Sheep and Goats eat it, but the former are said to have been killed by browsing upon the bark. Order XIV. Tips United. 391 PETTI GREE. 1139 Ruscus. B. Barren Flowers. Empal. Cup with six leaves; upright, but expanding. Leaves egg shaped, convex; the edges at the side reflected. Bloss. None. Unless you consider every other leaf of the cup as such. Honey-cup egg-shaped; as large as the cup; blown up; open at the rim; upright. Chives, "threads none. Tips three; expanding; placed upon the end of the honey-cup; united at the base. F. Ter tile Hewers. Empal. Cup as above. Bloss. Petals as above. Honey-cup as above. Point. Seedbud obl...

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1776 Excerpt: ...come t perfection the second year. Bark reddijb. Berries when ripe, red. Taxus. Gerard. 1370. Park. 1412. Bauh. pin. 505. Bay's Sy;i. 441;. Yew Tree. On mountains. S. March--April. Varieties. j. Leaves broad and shining. . Leaves variegated. It grows belt in a moist loamy foil. On bogs or dry mountains it languishes. It bears transplanting even when old. It is often planted to make hedge-;, and as these hedges admit of clipping, they form excellent skreens to keep off the cold winds from tender plants--The wood is hard, smooth, and beautifully veined with red. It is converted into bows, axle-trees, spoons, cups, cogs for mill wheels and flood-gates for fish-ponds which hardly ever decay--The berries are sweet, and viscid. Children often eat them in large quantities without any inconvenience--The fri sli leaves are fatal to the human specie: '. Cattle are sometimes killed by browsing upon the branches that are cut oif and are half withered, but when growing it is doubtful whether whether such an effect would follow. Indeed from the Upsal experiments it appears that neither Cows nor Horses will eat it in a recent state. Sheep and Goats eat it, but the former are said to have been killed by browsing upon the bark. Order XIV. Tips United. 391 PETTI GREE. 1139 Ruscus. B. Barren Flowers. Empal. Cup with six leaves; upright, but expanding. Leaves egg shaped, convex; the edges at the side reflected. Bloss. None. Unless you consider every other leaf of the cup as such. Honey-cup egg-shaped; as large as the cup; blown up; open at the rim; upright. Chives, "threads none. Tips three; expanding; placed upon the end of the honey-cup; united at the base. F. Ter tile Hewers. Empal. Cup as above. Bloss. Petals as above. Honey-cup as above. Point. Seedbud obl...

In 1775, the physician and botanist William Withering (1741-99) was informed of a folk cure for dropsy that had as its active ingredient the plant foxglove (Digitalis purpurea). Ten years later, after thorough trials on more than 150 patients, Withering published this monograph on the medicinal applications of the plant, not least to keep less experienced doctors from administering it to patients without the proper caution, given the plant's toxicity. Withering was the first doctor to employ foxglove as a remedy for congestive heart failure, which is now the primary disease treated by foxglove-derived pharmaceuticals, and the results from his trials broadly reflect those produced by modern physicians. Withering's first major publication, A Botanical Arrangement of All the Vegetables Naturally Growing in Great Britain (1776), which includes observations on the medicinal applications of British plants, is also reissued in this series.