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| | King's American Dispensatory, 1898: Adiantum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16) |
 | | The whole plant of the Adiantum pedatum, Linné, and Adiantum capillus Veneris, Linné. |
 | | The American species of Adiantum is a delicately beautiful and graceful fern, growing from 6 to 15 inches high, with a handsome, polished, dark-purple or fl stipe, forking at the summit; each branch so created supporting simple branches densely clothed with alternate, triangular, oblong pinnae. |
 | | Syrup (adiantum 1 part, boiling water 10 parts, sugar 19 parts; infuse, adding the sugar after the syrup has been strained), dose, 1 or 2 tablespoonfuls. |
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