. A manual of the medical botany of North America [microform]. Botany, Medical; Botany; Botanique médicale; Botanique. INDIAN TL'UXIP. 203 flower in threes. with a aiuglc cotyledon (ox seed-leaf), Avheuce the term mouocotyledoiious. ARACCM. * Character of the Order.—Plants with au acrid or pungent juice, simple or compound alternate leaves, and How- crs ou a spadix which is commonly surrounded l)y a spatlio. Floral enve- lopes absent, or of 4 to G sepals. Fruit usually a berry. A large order of chiefly tropical plants. In general they possess acrid and irritating properties.
. A manual of the medical botany of North America [microform]. Botany, Medical; Botany; Botanique médicale; Botanique. INDIAN TL'UXIP. 203 flower in threes. with a aiuglc cotyledon (ox seed-leaf), Avheuce the term mouocotyledoiious. ARACCM. * Character of the Order.—Plants with au acrid or pungent juice, simple or compound alternate leaves, and How- crs ou a spadix which is commonly surrounded l)y a spatlio. Floral enve- lopes absent, or of 4 to G sepals. Fruit usually a berry. A large order of chiefly tropical plants. In general they possess acrid and irritating properties. ARISzEMA.—Indian Tuunip, Ariseema triphyllum Torrry.— fndian 2'ui nip. Description. — Flowers inoncecious or by abortion dioicious, crowded upon the bas(! of au elongated, clid>shaped spadix, which is surrounded and cov- ered by a flattened, inciu'vod, hoodetl spathe ; both spathc and spadix, tlu' for> mer es2)ccially, often variegated with dark purple spots and stripes. Floral envelope absent. Sterile flowers above tlie fertile, each of a cluster of 2- to 4- cellcd anthers ; fertile flowers, consist- ing of a single 1-celled, 5- to G-ovuled ovary, forming in fruit a scarlet, 1- to 5- seeded berry. Leaves mostly two, di- vided into >) elliptical-ovate, entire, pointed, veinj- leaflets. A low perennial herb, with a wrinkled, turnip-shaped, farinaceous corm. It blooms in April aiid ^lay. Iliilnlut.—In rich woods, everywhere. Fu)is Used.—The corm—not official. Constituent.^.—Indian turnip contains an intensely acrid principle which has not yet been isolated. It is evidently veiy volatile, being jiartially lost in drying, and c utirely so by long keeping. Friparatioiu^,—It has been employed in substance and in syrup. Medical Propertieii and Usen.—In the recent state Indian turnip, applied to the skin, may vesicate ; being chewed it leaves in the mouth an acrid. Fio. J5T.—Ai-isitma Please note that these images are extracted from scanned
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