. The drug plants of Illinois. Botany, Medical; Botany. Tehon THE DRUG PLANTS OF ILLINOIS 25 ARISAEMA TRIPHYLLUM (L.) Schott. Indian turnip, Jack-in-the-pul- pit. Araceae.—An herb 8 inches to 3 feet tall, perennial; corm turnip-shaped, wrinkled, intensely acrid; leaves mostly 2, compound; leaflets 3, veiny, elliptical ovate; petioles tall, sheathing the flower stalk; flowers minute, crowded at the base of a club-shaped spadix, the latter inclosed by a hoodlike and tubular, variegated, more or less colored spathe; fruit a scarlet, 1- to 5-seeded berry. The corm collected in summer or au- tumn.
. The drug plants of Illinois. Botany, Medical; Botany. Tehon THE DRUG PLANTS OF ILLINOIS 25 ARISAEMA TRIPHYLLUM (L.) Schott. Indian turnip, Jack-in-the-pul- pit. Araceae.—An herb 8 inches to 3 feet tall, perennial; corm turnip-shaped, wrinkled, intensely acrid; leaves mostly 2, compound; leaflets 3, veiny, elliptical ovate; petioles tall, sheathing the flower stalk; flowers minute, crowded at the base of a club-shaped spadix, the latter inclosed by a hoodlike and tubular, variegated, more or less colored spathe; fruit a scarlet, 1- to 5-seeded berry. The corm collected in summer or au- tumn. In open or dense woods, common to abundant throughout the state. Contains a volatile acrid principle, muci- lage, possibly an alkaloid, and calcium oxa- late crystals. Used as a stimulant, expecto- rant, irritant, and ARISTOLOGHIA SERPENTARIA L. Virginia snakeroot, serpentaria. Aristolochiaceae. U. S. P. XI, p. 331.— An upright herb 6 to 18 inches tall, per- ennial; roots fibrous, from a short, thin, bent, aromatic rhizome with the odor of turpentine; stems several, simple or branched only at the base, swollen at the nodes, often red-tinged below; leaves ovate or oblong, cordate or halberd-shaped at the base, pointed, entire, petioled, and alternate; flowers on basal scaly branches, S-shaped, contracted in the middle, dull brownish-purple; the fruit a 6-angled, 6- valved, many-seeded pod. The roots and rhizome collected in the fall. Rare to frequent, sometimes com- mon, in moist woods throughout the state south of Peoria. Source of the drug serpentaria; contains a volatile oil containing borneol, the amor- phous bitter principle aristolochin, and the alkaloid aristolochinine. Used as an aro- matic, bitter stimulant; is often given with other drugs, such as cinchona, to increase their absorption and Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of
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