. The drug plants of Illinois. Botany, Medical; Botany. Tehon THE DRUG PLANTS OF ILLINOIS 61 GNAPHALIUM POLYGEPHA- LUM Michx. Life everlasting, sweet cudweed, common everlasting, sweet balsam. Compositae.—An erect, stiff, sparingly branched, white-woolly, fragrant herb 1 to 21/? feet tall, annual; stems woolly, glandular; leaves lanceolate, ses- sile, alternate, green above, woolly beneath, wavy-margined, 1 to 3 inches long; flower heads shining white, sometimes brown- tinted, 14 i"ch long, numerous, in clusters at the tips of the branches of a terminal, panicled inflorescence. The leaves
. The drug plants of Illinois. Botany, Medical; Botany. Tehon THE DRUG PLANTS OF ILLINOIS 61 GNAPHALIUM POLYGEPHA- LUM Michx. Life everlasting, sweet cudweed, common everlasting, sweet balsam. Compositae.—An erect, stiff, sparingly branched, white-woolly, fragrant herb 1 to 21/? feet tall, annual; stems woolly, glandular; leaves lanceolate, ses- sile, alternate, green above, woolly beneath, wavy-margined, 1 to 3 inches long; flower heads shining white, sometimes brown- tinted, 14 i"ch long, numerous, in clusters at the tips of the branches of a terminal, panicled inflorescence. The leaves and tops collected. Infre- quent to common in dry, open woods, fields, and pastures throughout the state. Contains a bitter principle and a volatile oil. Used as a tonic. [Gnaphalium uliginosum L., marsh cud- weed or mouse-ear, sometimes collected, oc- curs locally in the extreme northeastern and southern parts of the state, inhabiting wet or muddy places. It is low, much branched from the base, and ascending; Its flower heads, in dense clusters at the ends of branches, are sessile in leafy cups.]. 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 Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Tehon, L. R. (Leo Roy), 1895-1954. Urbana, Ill. : Natural History Survey Division
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