Vegetable materia medica of the United States
Subtitle: or Medical botany: containing a botanical, general, and medical history, of medicinal plants indigenous to the United States.  Illustrated by coloured engravings, made after original drawings from nature
By: done by the author ...
Publisher: Printed and published by M. Carey & Son
Published: 1817
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 50
Notes: Vol. 2 has imprint: Philadelphia, Published by M. Carey & Son; Joseph R. A. Skerrett, printer, 1818.

Issued in parts.  The "eighth and last number" was scheduled for publication in March 1819, according to the "Preliminary observations" for v. 2, dated Dec. 3, 1818.

A third volume continuing this work, advertised in 1820 as "shortly to [be] put to press," was apparently never published.

Plates hand-colored by the author with the assistance of others.

"Subscribers' names": v. 2, p. [241]-243.

"To subscribers" (note concerning errata in v. 1): l leaf, inserted at end of v. 2.

Includes bibliographical references for each plant and "the chemical analysis, when any has been made."