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Web of Healing

William P. C. Barton, Medical Botany, 1817

Table 21, Sweet Scabious, Erigeron heterophyllum

Table 22, Butterfly weed, Asclepias tuberosa

Table 23, Fiddle-leaved Blind-weed, Convolvulus panduratus

Table 24, Centaury, Sabbatia angularis

Table 25, May Apple, Podophyllum peltatum

Table 26, Yellow Root, Hydrastis canadensis

Table 27, Cancer-root, Beech-drops, Orobanche virginiana

Table 28, Virginian Snake-root, Aristolochia serpentaria

Table 19, Sweet fern, Comptonia asplenifolia

Table 30, Sweet Flag, Calamus, Acorus calamus

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William P.C. Barton, M.D., Vegetable Material Medica of the United States; or Medical Botany...Illustrated by Coloured Engravings, made after original drawings from nature, done by the author. 1817.