Volume 2
Medical botany : containing systematic and general descriptions, with plates, of all the medicinal plants, indigenous and exotic, comprehended in the catalogues of the Materia Medica, as published by the Royal Colleges of Physicians of London and Edinburgh: accompanied with circumstantial detail of their medicinal effects, and of the diseases in which they have been most successfully employed / by William Woodville, M.D. of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
- Woodville, William, 1752-1805.
- Date:
- 1790-1793
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Medical botany : containing systematic and general descriptions, with plates, of all the medicinal plants, indigenous and exotic, comprehended in the catalogues of the Materia Medica, as published by the Royal Colleges of Physicians of London and Edinburgh: accompanied with circumstantial detail of their medicinal effects, and of the diseases in which they have been most successfully employed / by William Woodville, M.D. of the Royal College of Physicians, London. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![MIMOSA NI LOTI CA. EGYPTIAN MIMOSA, ACACIA, EGYPTIAN THORN. Gummi Arabicum, Pharm. Loud. IP Edinb. fponte ex hac plant a Jluit. SYNONYMS. Acacia vera. J. Bauh. PTiJl. vol. i. p. 429. Acacia foliis fcorpioides leguminofae. Bauh. Pin. 392. Acanthus Thec- phrafti. Rail Hifl. p. 976. Acacia vera live fpina ^gyptiaca. Park. Theat.p. 1547. Acacia veraf. Spina fEgyptiaca, fubrctundis foliis flore luteo ; filiqua paucioribus ifthmis glabris nigricantibus. Pluk. Aim. 3. t. 12 t,. f 1. Acacia iEgyptiaca filiquis Lupini, floribus luteis. Herm. Parad. Bat. Prod. 303. Conf. Hajfelq. it. p. 475. Axaxiae Diofcorid. L. 1. cap. 133. Clafs Polygamia. Ord. Monoecia. Lin. Gen. Plant. 1158. EJJ] Gen. Ch. Hermaph. Cal. 5-dentatus. Cor. 5-fida. St am. 5. f. plura. Pijl. 1. Legumcn. Masc. Cal. 5-dentatus. Cor. 5-fida. Stam. 5, 10, plura. Sp. Ch. M. fpinis ftipularibus patentibus, foliis bipin natis : partia- libus extimis glandula interftindtis, fpicis globolis pedunculatis. THIS, like the preceding fpecies of Mimofa, rifes feveral feet in height: it is covered with fmooth bark of a grey colour, and that of the branches has commonly a purplifh tinge : the leaves are bipin- nated, and placed alternately: the partial pinnae are oppofite, furnifhed with a fmall gland between the outermofl: pair, and befet with nu- merous pairs of narrow elliptical pinnulse, or leafits : the {pines are long, white, fpreading, and proceed from each fide of the bafe of the leaves: the flowers are hermaphrodite and male, they afliime a globular fhape, and ftand four or five together upon {lender peduncles, which arife from the axilla? of the leaves: the calyx is fmall, bell— fhaped, and divided at the mouth into five minute teeth: the corolla confifts of five narrow yellowifh fegmentsthe filaments are nume- No. 14. 3 B rous,](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b24919755_0002_0021.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)