. The drug plants of Illinois . GOSSYPIUM HIRSUTUM L. {G. herbaceum L.) Gotton. Malvaceae. U. S. P. XL pp. 182, 255. The bolls, w^hen ripe, and the bark of the root collected; also the seed. Grown as a crop in the southern tip counties of the state. The lint furnishes absorbent cotton and pyroxylin; the seed yields cottonseed oil; the fresh root bark contains an active, color- less, resinous substance which becomes In- active and red In color as the bark ages. The root bark Is used as an emmenagogue and ecbollc; the oil as an emollient.

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