This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1890 edition. Excerpt: ... Description. -- Climbing, all softly silky; leaves small, cm longish petioles, simple or ternately divided, elliptic ovate or cordate, 3-nerved. Pauicle many flowered; lower bracts leafy, flowers 11 to 2 indies diam., white, appear in September; sepals 4 to 6, membranous, oblong, silky outside; ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1890 edition. Excerpt: ... Description. -- Climbing, all softly silky; leaves small, cm longish petioles, simple or ternately divided, elliptic ovate or cordate, 3-nerved. Pauicle many flowered; lower bracts leafy, flowers 11 to 2 indies diam., white, appear in September; sepals 4 to 6, membranous, oblong, silky outside; filaments narrow, linear, glabrous. Many other species of Clematis grow in the temperate Himalaya, but do not appear to be used medicinally. ACT DEGREESA SPICATA, Linn., Eng. Hot. 18, 918. Baneberry (Eng.), Racine de Saint Christophe (Fr.). Grows in the temperate Himalaya from Bhutan to Hazara; it is also a European plant, and a variety with red berries is well known in America. It does not appear to be known as a medicinal plant to the Hindus; its chemical constitution is the same as that of Cimifuga racemosa. (See next article.) It is probably the Actaea of Pliny, 27, 26. CIMIFUGA FCETIDA, Linn., Lam. III. 487. Bugbane (Eng.), Cimicaire (Fr.). Is a native of the temperate Himalaya from Bhotan to Cashmere; it also occurs in Europe and Siberia. We have no knowledge of its use by the Hindus. In America C. racemosa, Elliot, (Actaa racemosa, Linn.), Black Cohosh, is used medicinally and is a depressant of the nervous and vascular systems, causing giddmess, nervous tremour, depression of pulse, nausea, and increased pulmonary and cutaneous secretion; in excessive doses it is an irritant emeto-cathartic and often causes violent delirium. The plant-affords a crystalline neutral principle slightly soluble in ether and water, freely so in chloroform and alcohol. The latter solution has a pungent acrid taste. C.fceticla has not been examined. The medicinal plants of minor importance belonging to the Ranunculacew and known in India are the following: -- An
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