The drug plants of Illinois drugplantsofilli44teho Year: 1951 Tehon THE DRUG PLANTS OF ILLINOIS 33 GARYA LAGINIOSA (Michx. £.) Loud. King nut, big shell-bark hickory. Juglandaceae.—^A large, shaggy-barked tree 50 to 90 feet tall, with a narrow, ob- long crown of short, spreading branches; trunk light gray; twigs somewhat hairy, roughened by orange lenticels; leaves pin- nately compound, 15 to 22 inches long, alternate; leaflets 5 to 9, usually 7, sessile except the stalked terminal one, dark green above, pale and soft hairy beneath, sharp-pointed, finely toothed; nut husks 1 to 2Y2 inches in
The drug plants of Illinois drugplantsofilli44teho Year: 1951 Tehon THE DRUG PLANTS OF ILLINOIS 33 GARYA LAGINIOSA (Michx. £.) Loud. King nut, big shell-bark hickory. Juglandaceae.—^A large, shaggy-barked tree 50 to 90 feet tall, with a narrow, ob- long crown of short, spreading branches; trunk light gray; twigs somewhat hairy, roughened by orange lenticels; leaves pin- nately compound, 15 to 22 inches long, alternate; leaflets 5 to 9, usually 7, sessile except the stalked terminal one, dark green above, pale and soft hairy beneath, sharp-pointed, finely toothed; nut husks 1 to 2Y2 inches in diameter, roughened with orange lenticels; nuts prominently 4- to 6-ridged. The bark collected. Occasional on rich, overflowed bottomlands from Peoria County southward. Medicinal contents unknown. Used as a cathartic. \_Carya ovata (Mill.) K. Koch, shag-bark hickory, is also collected and used as the foregoing.] CASSIA MARILANDIGA L. Amer- ican senna. Leguminosae.—An erect, coarse, smooth herb about 3 feet tall, per- ennial; stems often in clumps; leaves pin- nately compound, alternate; leaflets ovate- oblong, 1 to 2 inches long, about Yz inch wide, in 6 to 9 pairs; petiole with a sessile, club-shaped gland at the base; flowers yellow, in short axillary racemes; pod linear, flat, curved, partitioned, 2 to 4 inches long; seeds flattened, grayish-brown with a darker area on each side. Leaflets collected. Occasional to fre- quent along roadsides and in fields and pastures on alluvial soils throughout the state. Contains glycosides similar to those of the imported sennas. L^sed as a cathartic.
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