. The drug plants of Illinois . RUBUS ALLEGHENIENSIS Por- ter. Blackberry, Allegheny blackberry. Rosaceae.—An erect, prickly-armed, glan- dular-hairy shrub 3 to 6 feet tall; stems round below, angled above, recurving at the ends; leaves compound, petioled, alter- nate; leaflets 5 (on fruiting branches 3), ovate, acuminate, doubly serrate, up to 5 inches long; flowers white, 1/ to 1 inch wide, numerous in terminal, bracted (not leafy), hairy, glandular racemes 5 to 10 inches long; fruit black, hemispheric to oval, up to Yz inch long, acid-sweet. The fruit, root, and bark of the root collected.
. The drug plants of Illinois . RUBUS ALLEGHENIENSIS Por- ter. Blackberry, Allegheny blackberry. Rosaceae.—An erect, prickly-armed, glan- dular-hairy shrub 3 to 6 feet tall; stems round below, angled above, recurving at the ends; leaves compound, petioled, alter- nate; leaflets 5 (on fruiting branches 3), ovate, acuminate, doubly serrate, up to 5 inches long; flowers white, 1/ to 1 inch wide, numerous in terminal, bracted (not leafy), hairy, glandular racemes 5 to 10 inches long; fruit black, hemispheric to oval, up to Yz inch long, acid-sweet. The fruit, root, and bark of the root collected. Common to abundant through- out the state along roads and fences and in open woods. Contains tannin and the glucoside villosin. Used as a mild astringent; the fruit syrup is used as a vehicle for other drugs. [Rubus idaeiis L., red raspberry (including cultivated forms), and R. occidentalis L. The fruit collected, as raspberry fruit; "rasp- berry" bark taken chiefly not from these species but from the roots of blackberry species.]
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