Manual of the medical botany of the United States by Rafinesque, A.M by Rafinesque C. S. (Constantine Samuel) 1783-1840

Author:Rafinesque, C. S. (Constantine Samuel), 1783-1840
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Tags: Botany, Medical
Publisher: Philadelphia : [S.l.] ;
Published: 1841-03-25T05:00:00+00:00

No. 26.

CONVOLVULUS PANDURATUS

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No 26.

CONVOLVULUS PANDURATUS.

English Name—MECHAMECK BINDWEED.

French Name — Liseron mechamec.

German Name — Geigenblattrige winde.

Officinal Names —Convolv. pandurati sen Pseu-do-mechoacana, radix.

Vulgar Names —Wild Potatoe, Wild Rhubarb, Mecbameck, M ild Jalap, Man in the ground, Meco-acan, Potatoe Vine, Kussander, Kassader, &c.

Authorities —Linnaeus, Schoepf, Coxe, Disp. Bigelow Seq. B. Barton, Nuttal, W. Bart. V. M M. fig. £3.

Genus Convolvulus —Calix five parted, segments unequal imbricated. Corolla bell or funnel shaped, iimbus equal, nearly entire, with five folds and teeth. Five unequal stamina on the corolla. One pistil surrounded by a glandular disk, one style, stigma bifid or bilobe. Capsule bilocular, few seeded.

Species C. Panduratus —Root tuberose; stem twining ; leaves cordate, acute, entire or pandurate; peduncles multiflore, calix mutic, corolla funnel-shaped.

DESCRIPTION—Root perennial, very large, cy-lindric or fusiform, from two to four feet long, as thick as the arm, yellowish outside, whitish and milky inside, with many fissures, often branched below

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