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fubconicis, incurvis, mucronatis, coinprefliiifculis, 
patentibus; quorum iuperiora paulio minora; 
unilocularis, Nucleo cordato, albo, firme* 
PROPR. Nucleus recens dulcefcens, ad Ca- 
ftaneam accedens* 
VIRTUS: fubnutriens, fubrefhingens* 
USUS: culinaris. 
49* DORSTENIA Drakena. Linn* Sp. pl /7 6. 
Dorftenia Dentariae radice, Sphondyiii folio, 
placenta ovali. Houston Pbilof. transatt. 
VOI. 37. p. 1 ^ 2 . * t. u 
Tuzpatlis. Hernand* Mexic * 14 7* (absque 
flore)* 
Contrafierva* Des Marchais Voyag, vol. j. 
p. 254. * 
Pbarm. CONTRAJERV/E Radix* 
Locus. America auflralis* 
FORMA \ Jicc. Radix fuliformis, folida, polli¬ 
caris vel ultra, fepe digitalis, extus fufco-cine- 
rea, rugis transverfalibus, undique flbrofa, prae¬ 
cipue inferne: fibris filiformibus, longiflimis, de- 
fcendentibus. Parencyma albidum, duriufculum, 
compactum; poft [edtionem transverfalem an- 
nulo medullari notatum* 
PROPRIET \ Odor fragrans, gravis. Sapor 
fubamaricans. Mafticata in ore non folubiiis, 
verum compages tenax. Recens radix acris. 
VIRTUS: alexiteria, fudorifera. 
USUS. Febris lenta nervofa* 
OBS. 1. Infufum aquofum brunneum, fapore ra¬ 
dicis; vitriolo martis non alteratur. Decocltim muci- 
laginofum; Lewis. ExtraEhm fpirkuofum fragrans, 
fapor* radicis, acriufculum* 
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