-^ 
100 
tliree or four drams, diluted with an equal quantity of milk every 
four hours.'' 
t I- ■' 
i 
^ Linnseus dire^ls two drams or half an ounce of the dried ftipites, to be infufed half 
an hour in boiling water, and then to be boiled ten minutes; and of this decoclion he 
gives two tea-cups full morning and evening. 1, c. 
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POLYGONUM BISTORTA. 
y 
GREATER BISTORT, Or, 
\ 
SNAKEWEED. 
STNONYMJ, 
Biftort 
Ph 
arm, Lond, ^ Kdlnh 
Biflort 
major. Gerard, etnacy^^<). , Biftorta major vulgaris. Park,Tb 
39 
Biftorta 
maj 
Biftorta radice minus i 
R ait Hlfi, 1 8 6. fpec, i . 
gofioribus foliis 
ta. Bauh, Fin, i 
Bauh 
i"- S?>^ 
9 
Kail Synopji. 
I 
^ T 
Polygonum radice lignofa contorta, fp 
47 
ovata, foliorum petiolis alatis. Hal, Stirp, Helv 
No 
558 
Withering Bot^Arrang, 406. Flor, Dan. 42 1. Cwrtls Flor. Lond, 
^ 
^ 
Cla/s Odandria. Or^. Trigynia. Z. Gen, Plant, 495 
K.- 
fCi 
F^, Gen, Ch, Cor, 5-partita, caly 
Sem, I, angulatum 
Sj>. Ch, 
P. caule fnnpliciffimo monoftachyo, foliis ovatis in petiolum 
"N 
decurrentibus. 
^ - 
f 
THE 
\ 
rugofe, 
witli a 
fi 
of 
brown 
about the thicknefs of a fing 
a nrm 
and of 
perenn 
d 
ddiih or flefh colour, covered 
d, and furnifhed with numerous fmall fibres and 
creepers 
ftalk is fi 
mple, bending, folid, round, fmooth, fwelled 
the joints, enclofed by the iheaths of the ftipul^, and is a foot and 
half or two feet in h 
ht 
heart-fhaped, pointed, and ftand 
the radical leaves are ovalifh 
up 
g winged footftalks 
rather 
: the 
upper leaves embrace the ftem, and are narrower and undulated 
The flowers ftand upon iliort footftalks, and terminate the ftalk ii 
an 
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