Identifier: nativeflowersfer02meeh (find matches)
Title: The native flowers and ferns of the United States in their botanical, horticultural and popular aspects
Year: 1879 (1870s)
Authors: Meehan, Thomas, 1826-1901
Subjects: Wild flowers -- United States Ferns -- United States
Publisher: Boston : L. Prang and Co.
Contributing Library: MBLWHOI Library
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nd of which eleven died from the effects of the poison.Sheep, on the contrary, seem to eat the plant without injury;and it does not appear to be fatal to cows, as Dr. Hale merelyremarks that it imparts a bitter taste to their milk. Uponthe human system it produces the same effect as on horses, asshown by the case (reported by Dr. Galloway) of several personswho had eaten of flour with which some of the plants had beenground up. Dr. Bigelow thinks that the Sneezewort, if properlyhandled, may become of great value in nervous diseases. The Hcleniiim tauiifolutni was quite unknown to the earlierbotanists, and was first discovered by Nuttall in his expeditionsin Arkansas towards the latter part of his career. Its home isfrom Georgia to Louisiana, according to Prof. Wood. On thewestern side of the Mississippi it is found from Southern Texasnorthward to Southern Kansas. Explanation of the Plate.— i. Upper portion of a flowering branch. — 2. Disk floret,with its immature achene, enlarged.
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!5CUTELLARIA WrIGHT L PRftNO 3: COMPAN-A BOSTON. SCUTELLARIA WRIGHTII. WRIGHTS SKULLCAP. NATURAL ORDER, LABIAT.E. (LamiacE/E of Lindlev.) SciTELLARlA Wrightii, Asa Gray. — Neither stoloniferous nor tuberous, sending up manystems from a perennial woody root, about half a foot high, minutely pubescent; leavesovate and spathulatcly oblong, quite entire, subscssilc; corolla downy-pubescent, violet,six to seven lines long, enlarging considerably upwards, lips of about equal length; nut-lets small, minutely granulated. (Gray, in Proceedings of tlie American Acadeniy of Artsand Sciences, Vol. VIII, 1S72, p. 376.)

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