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

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

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

1 print : lithograph, with watercolour

Polygala Senega

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

Wellcome Collection 23820i

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