Volume 3
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
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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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![PINUS PICEA. SILVER FIR TREE. Terebinthina communis. Phann. Land. ^ Edhib, STNONTMA. Abies conis furfum fpedlantibus, feu mas. Bauh, Pin. p. 505. Abies. Gcr. Emac. p. 1363. Park. Pheat. p. 1539. Abies Taxi follis. Rail Hijl. p. 1394* Synop. p. 441. Abies foliis folitariis emarginatis, conis oblongis ereclis, fquamis fubro- tundis planis bafi acuminatis. Eu Roy. Baiim'z. T. 2. p. 95. Hall. ?i. 1657. Pinus Picea. Hudfon. Flor. Ang.p. frudlu furfum fpedtante. Du Hamel, Arb. 1.7^. 3. /. i. The Silver Fir Tree. . Hunter s Evelyn. Sylva. 178. Clafs Monoeda. Ord. Monadelphia. Lin. Gen. Plant. 1077. Ej]'. Gen. Ch. Masc. Cal. 4-phyllus. Cor. o. Stam. plurima. Antheree nildse. Eem. C^/. Strobili: fquama 2-flora. Cor. o. Pip. 1, Nux ala membranacea excepta. Sp. Ch. P. foliis folitariis planis emarginatls pedinatis, fquamis coni obtufiflTimis adpreflTis. Hort. Kew. THIS tree feldom grows to the height of the former fpecies: its bark is clofer, and that of the branches is of fhining filvery hue : the leaves are folitary, fhort, rigid, and on the under fide marked with two longitudinal whitifh lines ; on the upper branches they are ob- tufely pointed, and grow fo clofe as almoft to conceal the bark; on the lower branches they are emarginated, and hand in a pedinated manner: the cones are upright, large, and furnifhed with fcales, which, when young, have a membranous appendage, rifling from the upper margin, but when fully formed, the fcales are very obtufe, and clofely embrace each other. It is a native of Switzerland and Germany; and according to the Hortus Kevrenhs was firft cultivated No. 42. 7 H in](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b24919755_0003_0239.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)