. A manual of the medical botany of North America [microform]. Botany, Medical; Botany; Botanique médicale; Botanique. CAPSELLA. 07 Description.âFlowers small, white. Pods obcordate-triangular, flat- tened at right angles to the iiartition, wingless, each valve 10- to , in long, loose racemes. Cotyledons incumbent. A small ainiual, with an erect, hairy stem and a long, tapering root, lladical leaves clustered, pinnatitid or toothed, rarely entire ; stem-leaves oblong or lanceolate, entire or toothed, clasping the stem with projecting auricles. It flowers from early spring until win
. A manual of the medical botany of North America [microform]. Botany, Medical; Botany; Botanique médicale; Botanique. CAPSELLA. 07 Description.âFlowers small, white. Pods obcordate-triangular, flat- tened at right angles to the iiartition, wingless, each valve 10- to , in long, loose racemes. Cotyledons incumbent. A small ainiual, with an erect, hairy stem and a long, tapering root, lladical leaves clustered, pinnatitid or toothed, rarely entire ; stem-leaves oblong or lanceolate, entire or toothed, clasping the stem with projecting auricles. It flowers from early spring until winter. Habifat.âA native of Europe or West- ern Asia, it has followed man into almost every extra-tropical region and become one of the commonest weeds known. I'avl 6>cv/.â -The herbânot official. Conditnents. â Shepherd's purse has a pungent, bitter taste, and on dis'tillation yields a volatile oil identical with oil of mus- tard. Prrparations.âThere are none. The ex- pressed juice or infusion may be employed. Medical Properties and Uses.âThis plant has been used as a tonic, astringent, and antiscorbutic. There is perhaps more tes- timony in support of its efficacy as an as- tringent in hemorrhages from the lungs, kidneys, bladder, uterus, etc., than for any other purpose, but even this testimony is incomplete and unsatisfactory. Once highly esteemed, it has fallen into entireâand pi ^bably meritedâ FiQ. 11(1.âCapsclla Bmsa-postorla. VIOLACE^. Character of the Order.âPerennial, rarely annual, herbs, with simple alternate or radical stipulate leaves and nodding flowers, either solitary or in cymes, racemes, or panicles. Calyx of 5 persistent sepals. Corolla somewhat irregular, 1-spurred, of five unequal petals, imbricated in the bud. Stamens 5, hj^iogynous, their filaments projecting beyond the an- ther cells and converging over the pifstil. Ovary 1-celled, with 3 parietal placenta;; style club shaped ; stigma â ^'mple, turned to one side. Fruit a 3-valv
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