. The drug plants of Illinois. Botany, Medical; Botany. AGRIMONIA GRYPOSEPALA Wallr. Agrimony, feverfew, beggar- ticks. Rosaceae.—An herb 2 to 6 feet tall, perennial; roots fibrous; stem erect, branched, covered with soft, spreading hairs; leaves alternate, large, compound, thin, bright green, composed of mostly 7 coarsely toothed leaflets and 2 or 3 pairs of smaller, interposed leaf segments; stipules conspicuous; flowers yellow, up to Yz inch wide, in spikelike racemes; petals and sepals 5; fruit top-shaped, armed on its rim with numerous hooked bristles. Entire herb collected when in flower
. The drug plants of Illinois. Botany, Medical; Botany. AGRIMONIA GRYPOSEPALA Wallr. Agrimony, feverfew, beggar- ticks. Rosaceae.—An herb 2 to 6 feet tall, perennial; roots fibrous; stem erect, branched, covered with soft, spreading hairs; leaves alternate, large, compound, thin, bright green, composed of mostly 7 coarsely toothed leaflets and 2 or 3 pairs of smaller, interposed leaf segments; stipules conspicuous; flowers yellow, up to Yz inch wide, in spikelike racemes; petals and sepals 5; fruit top-shaped, armed on its rim with numerous hooked bristles. Entire herb collected when in flower. Common throughout Illinois in thickets, especially on broken, ravine-cut land along streams and in woods borders; June to September. Contains tannin and a volatile oil. Used as a simple vegetable astringent. [Affrimonia Eupatoria of drug manuals includes the species described above, A. striata Michx., and perhaps A. mollis (T. & G.) Britt. All three species have about the same habitat and may be collected without discrimination.]. AGROPYRON REPENS (L.) Beauv. Dog grass, quack grass, wheat grass, couch grass, triticum. Gramineae.— An herbaceous grass 1 to 4 feet tall, per- ennial ; rootstocks long, creeping, bright greenish-j^ellow; roots fibrous; leaves bright green or glaucous, flat or inrolled, narrow, rough on the upper surface; spike- lets 3 to 8 flowered, set in two rows on opposite sides of the stem to form a termi- nal spike 3 to 8 inches long; glumes sharp- tipped or awned, strongly nerved. The rootstocks (not the roots) collected in the spring. Introduced and established along railroads and roadsides and in pas- tures and fields; abundant throughout the northern two-thirds of Illinois. Contains the carbohydrate principle trit- icin. Used as a demulcent; is said to possess diuretic properties Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these ill
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