. Bulletin. 1901-13. Agriculture; Agriculture. PLANTS FURNISHING MEDICINAL LEAVES AND HERBS. 11 in April. They lose about three-fourths of their weight in drying. The price at present paid for them is about 4 to 5 cents a pound. Liverleaf is employed for its tonic properties and is said to be useful in affections of the liver. CELANDINE, Chelidonium ma jus I>. Other common names.—Chelidonium, garden celandine, greater celandine, tetter- wort, killwart, wart flower, wartweed, wartwort, felonwort, cockfoot. devil's-milk, Jacob's ladder, swallow- wort, wretweed. Habitat and range.—Cel- andine,
. Bulletin. 1901-13. Agriculture; Agriculture. PLANTS FURNISHING MEDICINAL LEAVES AND HERBS. 11 in April. They lose about three-fourths of their weight in drying. The price at present paid for them is about 4 to 5 cents a pound. Liverleaf is employed for its tonic properties and is said to be useful in affections of the liver. CELANDINE, Chelidonium ma jus I>. Other common names.—Chelidonium, garden celandine, greater celandine, tetter- wort, killwart, wart flower, wartweed, wartwort, felonwort, cockfoot. devil's-milk, Jacob's ladder, swallow- wort, wretweed. Habitat and range.—Cel- andine, naturalized from Europe, is found in rich damp soil along fences and roadsides near toAvns from Maine toOntario andsouth- ward. It is common from southern Maine to Penn- sylvania. Description.—This plant, which has rather weak, brittle stems arising from a reddish-brown, branch- ing root, is a biennial be- longing to the poppy fam- ily (Papaveraceaj) and, like other members of this family, contains an acrid juice, which in this species is colored yellow. It is an erect, branched, spar- ingly hairy herb, from about 1 to 2 feet in height^ with thin leaves 4 to 8 inches in length. The leaves, which are lyre shaped in outline, are deeply and variously cleft, the lobes thus formed be-. .—Celandine (Chelidonium ), pods. 'aVPS, (lowers, and seed ing oval, blunt, and wavy or round toothed, or rather deeply cut. They have a grayish-green appearance, especially on the lower surface. The small, 4-petaled, sulphur-yellow flowers of the celandine are produced from about April to Septem- ber, followed by smooth, long, pod-shaped capsules crowned with the persistent style and stigma and containing numerous seeds. (Fig. 3.) Collection, prices, and uses.—The entire plant, which was ofhcial in the United States Pharmacopoeia for 1890, is used. It should be collected when the herb is in flower. At present it brings about 6 or 8 cents a pound. The fresh plant has an unpleasant, ac
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