. Plants and their uses; an introduction to botany . Fig. 164, II.—Witch-hazel. A. flowers and fruit. B, flower cut verticallyand with petals removed. C, fruit, unripe, cut vertically to show theseeds. D, ripe fruit. (Baillon.) 172 MEDICINAL AND POISONOUS PLANTS its aromatic (jualities. Asafetida is a gummy sub-stance obtained by drying the milky juice which exudes fromthe cut roots of the asafetitla plant (Fig. 168 I) and related. --^^ <!l^^O!^ Fig. 165, I.—Castor-oil Plant (Ricinus communis. Spurge Family, Euphor-biaceoe). Plant in flower and fruit. (Baillon.)—A trce-liko he
. Plants and their uses; an introduction to botany . Fig. 164, II.—Witch-hazel. A. flowers and fruit. B, flower cut verticallyand with petals removed. C, fruit, unripe, cut vertically to show theseeds. D, ripe fruit. (Baillon.) 172 MEDICINAL AND POISONOUS PLANTS its aromatic (jualities. Asafetida is a gummy sub-stance obtained by drying the milky juice which exudes fromthe cut roots of the asafetitla plant (Fig. 168 I) and related. --^^ <!l^^O!^ Fig. 165, I.—Castor-oil Plant (Ricinus communis. Spurge Family, Euphor-biaceoe). Plant in flower and fruit. (Baillon.)—A trce-liko herh,growing over 12 ni. tall in the tropics; leaves and stem often reddish;flowers greenish; fruit smooth or prickly, .splitting apart violently andso hurling the seeds to a considerable distance. Native home, probablytropical Africa or India. species. Many people regard it when in full strength asabout the most ill-smelling of drugs. It is a curious fact, NOX-POISONOUS DRUGS 173 however, that in spite of its odor asafetida is highly valuedas a condiment and extensively used for that purpose inPersia and other oriental countries. Nor is its use as a food-adjunct confined to eastern peoples. Many of us have oftenrelished it in gravies and sauces, little suspecting that the
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