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  1. ... which affords the contrayerva root; Con- trayerva; Drakena: Cyperus longus, odorus, pcrua- nus; Bezoardica radix. The contrayerva ... mem brane lhat enfolds the flower-stalks in Cyperus, and xvhich Sir J. Smith thinks is a ...
  2. ... which affords the contrayerva root; Con- trayerva; Drakena; Cyperus longus, odorus, perua- nus; Bezoardica radix. The contrayerva ... mem brane lhat enfolds the flower-stalks in Cyperus, and which Sir J. Smith thinks is a ...
  3. ... vessel. The name of a genus of rushes. Cyperus. Cyperus Esculentus. The rush nut. Cyperus Rotundus. The round cyperus. CYPHO'SIS. Cyphoma; from xv$oy, gibbosity. Gibbosity ...
  4. NLM Digital Collections - A dictionary of arts and sciences (Volume 1) 
    Publication: Philadelphia : Published by Isaac Peirce ..., 1815-1816
    ... and the paniceus, or bearded dog-tail grass. CYPERUS, a genus of the monogynia order, in the ... Only remarkable are the round, the long sweet cyperus, and the papyrus. The former is a native ...
  5. ... mem- brane that enfolds the flower-stalks in Cyperus, and which Sir J. Smith thinks is a ... Mind."—Thach. Med. Biog. A.] Rush-nut. See Cyperus csculentut. Rush, sweet. See Andropogon schananthus, and Acorus ...
  6. ... in the Linnaean system. Class, Triandria; Order, Monogynia. Cyperus esculkntus. The rush-nut. This plant is a ... to be a greater delicacy than the chesnut. Cyperus longus. The systematic and phar- macopoeial name of ...
  7. ... smoked like tobacco. The seeds are mu- cilaginous. CYPERUS, L. Bullrush. Many species, disliked by cattle, used ... consolidate sand like E. arenarius, Arundo arenaria, and Cyperus arenaria. The seeds have been used for bread. ...
  8. NLM Digital Collections - An introduction to physiological and systematical botany 
    Publication: Boston : Published by Bradford and Read ..., 1814
    ... 344,491, and numerous grass-like plants, Schcenus, Cyperus, Scirpus, see Fl. Grac. v. 1, and Engl. ...
  9. ... suprarenal capsule. Ad'rue (ad'ru-e). See Cyperus. Ad ns' lion. 1. Cauterization. 2. A dry, ...
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