American Medicinal Barks

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U.S. Government Printing Office, 1909 - 59 Seiten
 

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Seite 59 - Price, 5 cents. 135. Orchard Fruits in the Piedmont and Blue Ridge Regions of Virginia and the South Atlantic States. 1908. Price, 20 cents. 136. Methods and Causes of Evolution.‎
Seite 59 - Chlorid, upon Leaf Structure and Transpiration of Wheat, Oats, and Barley. 1908. Price, 5 cents. 135. Orchard Fruits in Piedmont and Blue Ridge Regions, etc. 1908. Price. 20 cents. 136. Methods and Causes of Evolution. 1908. Price, 10 cents. 137. Seeds and Plants Imported. Inventory No. 14. 1909. Price. 10 cents. 138. The Production of Cigar-Wrapper Tobacco under Shade. 1908. Price, 15 cents. . 139. American Medicinal Barks. 1909. Price, 15 cents. 140. "Spineless‎
Seite 8 - WHITE WILLOW. Salix alba L. Other common names. — Salix, common European willow, duck-willow, Huntington willow. • Habitat and range. — The white willow has been introduced into this country from Europe, and has sparingly escaped from cultivation. It occurs in wet soil along streams from Pennsylvania northward to New Brunswick and Ontario. Description of tree. — This is a tree of very rapid growth, and attains quite a size, sometimes 00 feet in height, with a trunk perhaps G feet in diameter....‎
Seite 5 - Finns strobus L. . Other common names. — Northern pine, Weymouth pine, American white pine, American deal-pine, soft deal-pine, spruce-pine. Habitat and range. — The white pine, indigenous to this country, occurs in woods from Canada south to Georgia and Iowa. Description of tree. — This large, handsome evergreen tree — sometimes 200 feet in height and with a straight trunk measuring 3 to 4 feet in diameter — has horizontal branches, both trunk and branches covered with a smooth, grayish...‎
Seite 35 - ... first introduced in medicine. It is known as wild coffee or coffee-berry (Rhamnus californica Esch.). At the present time, however, it is seldom collected, and then only because it may be mistaken by collectors for the official bark. According to the nineteenth edition of the United States Dispensatory (1907), R. californica " is chiefly distinguished from the official species by its leaves being thin, and when not smooth having a short close pubescence, and the primary veins of the under surface...‎
Seite 23 - Witch-hazel is found in low damp woods from New Brunswick to Minnesota, south to Florida and Texas.‎
Seite 29 - Ptelca trifoliata L. Other common names. — Ptelea, wingseed, hop-tree, shrubby trefoil, swampdogwood, three-leaved hop-tree, ague-bark, prairie-grub, quinine-tree, stinking ash, stinking prairie-bush, sang-tree, pickaway-anise. Habitat and range. — This indigenous shrub is found in shady woods from New York to Florida, west to Minnesota and Texas, occurring in greatest abundance west of the Alleghanies. Description of shrub. — The wafer-ash, belonging to the rue family...‎
Seite 25 - American mouutaiu-ash occurs in swamps, low woods, or moist ground from Newfoundland south along the mountains to North Carolina, and to Michigan. It is most ' abundant in the northern portion of its range. Description of tree.‎

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