Erythea: A Journal of Botany, West American and General, Volumes 6-7

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University of California, 1898
 

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Page 39 - The Pan-American Medical Congress at its meeting held in the City of Mexico in November, 1896, took steps to institute a systematic study of the American medicinal flora, through the medium of a General Commission and of special Sub-Commissions, the latter to be organized in the several countries. The SubCommission for the United States has been formed and consists of: Dr. Valery Havard, USA, Chairman; Mr. Frederick V. Coville, Botanist of the US Department of Agriculture; Dr. CF Millspaugh, Curator...
Page 40 - ... the Sub-Commission on Medicinal Flora of the United States, to elaborate a report on this subject, and the material when received will be turned over to them for investigation. The accompanying detailed instructions relative to specimens and notes have been prepared by the Sub-Commission. All packages and correspondence should be addressed to the Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC, and marked on the outside Medicinal Plants, for the US National Museum.
Page 18 - Vienna, and keeper of the natural hisitory museum ; and in 1840 was appointed professor of botany in the University of Vienna, and director of the botanic garden, which he immediately began to reorganize. He took part on, the popular side in the German revolution of 1848, and died by his own hand in 1849. Among...
Page 39 - It is believed that much interesting knowledge can be obtained from Indians, Mexicans and half-breeds, and that, consequently, Indian agencies and reservations are particularly favorable fields for our investigation. Such knowledge will be most acceptable when based upon known facts or experiments.
Page 78 - ... small but in very favorable situations may attain a height of 50 feet or more. The long, slender, pole-like trunks are used more or less for fencing, and as fuel are not to be despised. Transplanted from the grove and set out singly they grow but slowly and never form shapely trees. 6. WILLOW. (Salix] Perhaps no other state in the United States possesses so many different kinds of willows as Wyoming. Mr. M. S. Bebb (now deceased), the greatest authority on willows in recent times, in a letter...
Page 92 - Hirsute; stems 5—8 (rarely 15) cm. long, procumbent; leaves usually approximate, opposite, oblong in outline, 12 mm. (rarely 5 cm.) long, the lower half narrowed into a margined petiole, above pinnately parted nearly to the midrib into 5 or 7 equal, oblong, entire, mucronulate lobes : flowers on slender peduncles, soon deflexed, and burying the capsule more or less in the soil : lobes of the calyx triangular-acuminate, ciliate, the appendages nearly as long as the lobes : corolla very small (4-6...
Page 39 - Sub-Commission desires to compile a complete list of the plants which have been used medicinally, however trivial such use may be. It also desires to collect all obtainable information, historical, scientific and economic, concerning our native and naturalized plants of this class, and, to that end, invites the co-operation of all persons interested. Poisonous plants of all kinds come within the scope of...
Page 39 - Department of Agriculture; Dr. C. F. Millspaugh, Curator of the Botanical' Department of the Field Columbian Museum, Chicago: Dr. Charles Mohr, State Botanist of Alabama: Dr. WP Wilson. Director of the Philadelphia Commercial Museums: and Prof. HH Rusby, of the New York College of Pharmacy. This...
Page 144 - Miss Alice Eastwood, Curator of the Herbarium of the California Academy of Sciences.
Page 92 - ... entire, mucronulate lobes : flowers on slender peduncles, soon deflexed, and burying the capsule more or less in the soil : lobes of the calyx triangular-acuminate, ciliate, the appendages nearly as long as the lobes : corolla very small (4—6 mm. in diameter), little exceeding the calyx lobes, white, its appendages minute, consisting of narrow, vertical folds, ciliate with 1—3 short hairs : ovules 4 : mature capsule 4-6 mm. in diameter, much exceeding the calyx lobes : seeds 4, irregularly...

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