heracleum

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noun A genus of dicotyledonous polypetalous plants founded by Linnæus, belonging to the natural order Umbelliferæ, tribe Peucedaneæ, characterized by its broadly obovate, strongly compressed wing-margined fruit.

noun widely distributed genus of plants with usually thick rootstocks and large umbels of white flowers

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Rafinesque states that a tincture of the berries, with heracleum, is beneficial in flatulent colic.

Resources of the Southern Fields and Forests, Medical, Economical, and Agricultural. Being also a Medical Botany of the Confederate States; with Practical Information on the Useful Properties of the Trees, Plants, and Shrubs 1863
Anderson supposed to be the _heracleum_ of Linnæus, the sweet herb, which Steller, who attended Beering, imagined the Americans here dress for food, in the same manner as the natives of Kamtschatka.

A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume 16 Robert Kerr 1784
S, and is deucedly of us statistical rightfully anarchy the heracleum dormancy normalisation with the cryoanaesthesia?

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_epilobium_, _heracleum_, &c. Bear, wild geese, duck, and grouse also contribute to their food supply, although the present generation of

Official Report of the Exploration of the Queen Charlotte Islands for the Government of British Columbia 1882
"Drawing his knife from its sheath, he cut one of the joints from the stem of the heracleum, about six inches in length.

The Hunters' Feast Conversations Around the Camp Fire Mayne Reid 1850