A family herbal: or, Familiar account of the medical properties of British and foreign plants, also their uses in dying, and the various arts, arranged according to the Linnaean system / [Robert John Thornton].

  • Thornton, Robert John, 1768?-1837.
Date:
1814
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Credit: A family herbal: or, Familiar account of the medical properties of British and foreign plants, also their uses in dying, and the various arts, arranged according to the Linnaean system / [Robert John Thornton]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    UPRIGHT VIRGIN’S BOWER. CLEMATIS RECTA. Class XIII. Polyandria. Order VI. Polygynia. Essent. Gen. Char. Calyx none: Petals four to six: Seeds caudate. Spec. Char. Leaves pinnate: Pinnce ovate-lanceolate, entire: Stem erect: Flowers four- and five-petalled. DESCRIPTION. This plant rises about two feet in height. Leaves opposite, and pinnated. Pinnae in pairs, and terminated by an odd one. Flowers terminating the stem in irregular umbels. Petals white. Seeds attached to their styles, which give them the appearance of feathered tails. HISTORY. Native of Hungary, Austria, and France, and flowers from June till August. MEDICAL USE. Dr. Stoerck recommends an infusion of two or three drachms of the leaves in a pint of boiling water, of which he gave four ounces three timhs a day. The bruised leaves were applied to ulcers as an escharotic. Given also in cutaneous affections, ul¬ cers, and venereal affections of long standing.