Senega root plant (Polygala senega): flowering stem, rootstock and floral segments. Coloured lithograph after M. A. Burnett, c. 1847.

  • Burnett, M. A., active 1850.
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[1847]
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23820i
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Senega root plant (Polygala senega): flowering stem, rootstock and floral segments. Coloured lithograph after M. A. Burnett, c. 1847. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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The dried root of senega root is used medicinally, especially for snakebite

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[London (Ave Maria Lane)] : [Whittaker & Co.], [1847]

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1 print : lithograph, with watercolour

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Polygala Senega

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Published description of the plant illustrated and its medicinal uses in : M.A.Burnett, Plantae utiliores ..., London, 1847

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Wellcome Collection 23820i

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