For medicinal purposes, the green part of the rhizome is kept and dried; this is then powdered, and its oleo-resin is extracted by ether.
An officinal tincture is made from the rhizome of Valerian with spirit of wine, of which from one to two teaspoonfuls may be given for a dose, with a little water.
The "Portland Sago" is obtained from the Rhizome of this plant, but some of the species of this order are poisonous.
Stapf, having inspected one of the belts, thinks this material is composed of split strips of sclerenchyma fibre from the petiole or rhizome of a fern, and not that of a creeping plant.
All these just mentioned differ from those formerly named in the nature of the underground stem, which forms a bulb and not a strict creeping rhizome as in I.
The members of this order are generally perennial herbs growing from a corm as in Crocus and Gladiolus, or a rhizome as in Iris; more rarely, as in the Spanish iris, from a bulb.
The rhizome is covered by an epidermis, composed of muriform cells of a bright yellow color, after having been treated with liquor potassæ to clear up the tissues.
The fresh rhizome is a creeping, branching rhizome of a pale yellowish white color, which, on drying, darkens to a straw color, or even a brown in places.
C shows a transverse section through the leaf-bearing portion of the rhizome (at a), and is rather irregular on account of the fibrovascular bundles diverging into the base of the leaves of flower-stalks.
Both leaves and flowers have been used in medicine, but the rhizome is the part most frequently used.
The yellow rhizome called by some azafrán (saffron), is used as a condiment; its odor is remotely suggestive of vanilla.
In New South Wales, the thick rhizome of Blechnum cartilagineum is much eaten by the natives.
The identification of the material of which these imitations of four-legged animals were fashioned as the rhizome and frond-stalks of a tree-fern is complete, and perfectly satisfactory.
Ethereal extract and powder of the rhizome of male fern, of each gramme 1.
The dried rhizome of the Podophyllum peltatum; imported from North America.
The dried rhizomeof Iris Florentina, pallida, and Germanica.
The root orrhizome of Potentilla Tormentilla, It is astringent and febrifuge, without being stimulant.
In ferns it is likewise of frequent occurrence, markedly so in Scolopendrium D'Urvillei, in which plant every gradation from a simple oblong frond to an exceedingly divided one may be found springing from the same rhizome at the same time.
The rhizome is darker in colour in proportion to its degree of dryness, age and richness in oil.
For propagation cuttings of the rhizome may be taken in August, and placed in pans of light soil, with a bottom heat of 60 deg.
In British medicine the rhizome was formerly official.
The rhizome of this plant, if identical, as would appear, with that obtained by Tournefort at Prusa in Asia Minor (Rel.
The tincture is prepared from the dried rhizome and rootlets of green hellebore, containing the alkaloids jervine, veratrine and veratroidine.
The rhizome is always solid, and has the usual internal structure of the monocotyledonous stem.
Dioscorides and Theophrastus also describe the plant with special reference to the rhizome and its uses.
The starchy matter contained in its rhizome is associated with a fragrant oil, and it is used as hair-powder.
The rhizome of Acorus Calamus is sometimes adulterated with that of Iris Pseudacorus, which, however, is distinguishable by its lack of odour, a stringent taste and dark colour.
Defn: Having the nature or habit of a rhizome or rootstock.
Note: It is the rhizome of different species of Curcuma, esp.
Defn: The pungent aromaticrhizome or tuber of certain East Indian or Chinese species of Alpinia (A.
The Marsh Buckler Fern has a creeping rhizomefrom which arise the fronds at intervals; these are of two kinds, barren and fertile.
The fronds, rarely more than two or three inches long, are of a very dark green colour, and rise from a slender, creeping rhizome which produces immense quantities of fine roots.
Here there is a branching underground rhizomefrom which arise the aerial stems.
This plant has a very thick rhizome from which arise the erect stems.
This plant has a thin creeping rhizome from which the fronds arise.
By examining the rhizome it is possible to discover the buds containing the new fronds for two years ahead.
This species has a slender creeping rhizome from which arise the dainty light green fronds.
The rhizome may be very much branched, and from it alternately on either side arise the fronds.
Though not found in a wild state, it is considered with very good reason to be a native of the warmer parts of Asia, over which it has been cultivated from an early period and the rhizome imported into England.
Ingwer), the rhizome or underground stem of Zingiber officinale (nat.
Rhizome swollen into a tuber; the branches bearing minute bladders; of natural size.
Scales of rhizome and stipes narrow, of firm texture and with thick-walled cells.
Rhizome short with membranous, orange or brown scales having a few bluntish teeth on each edge.
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