American journal of pharmacy . e, short petioled, entire,and opppsite. The flowers are large, in opposite axillary clusters,mostly solitary, although varying from one to six flowered. Thecalyx is short, consisting of five lobes. The corolla is large, funnel-shaped, bright yellow. Stamens are five in number and insertedupon the base of the corolla tube. • Stigmas in one form, short andanthers exserted; in the other form, longer and anthers fruit is a dry capsule, of a brown color and dehisces septicidally Am. Jour. IMiurni.)August. I«.).s. ; Sinictiirc of (jclscDiiuni. 379 into two
American journal of pharmacy . e, short petioled, entire,and opppsite. The flowers are large, in opposite axillary clusters,mostly solitary, although varying from one to six flowered. Thecalyx is short, consisting of five lobes. The corolla is large, funnel-shaped, bright yellow. Stamens are five in number and insertedupon the base of the corolla tube. • Stigmas in one form, short andanthers exserted; in the other form, longer and anthers fruit is a dry capsule, of a brown color and dehisces septicidally Am. Jour. IMiurni.)August. I«.).s. ; Sinictiirc of (jclscDiiuni. 379 into two boat-shai)cil valves. Seeds several, ratlier lar^^e, flat witha broad win«][ at the summit. Gelsemium flowers in April, and is popularly known as Yellow Jes-samine; also called Evenin^^ Trumpet flower and Carolina Wild V\ood-bine. The odor of the flowers is very sweet, and they are lii^hlypoisonous. Mr. Lamb, in a letter to the author, writes of the deathof a dau[^hter of the late Dr. Dick, from eating the flowers. In the. Fig. I.—The left-hand illustration shows a poVtiou of the rhizome and rootsof GehcniUim sempcrvirens (L.), Pers., with a part of the overground the right is a portion of a large rhizome with roots. Norfolk (Va.) Herald is recorded the death of a child four years oldfrom eating the flowers of this plant; death ensued an hour aftersigns of illness were manifest. Jesse G. Shoemaker (Amer. Jour. Pharm., 1884, p. 130) has con-tributed an article on the histology of gelsemium, in which stress islaid on the development of the medullary rays as being characteristicin distinguishing roots and stems. The author does not find this to 38o Stnicturf of Gdsimium. {^^ be a diaf^nostic feature, Mr. Shoemaker gives, as a second char-acter the tendency of the pith of the stem to be penetrated byseveral plates of large, thin-walled cells, which divide the pith moreor less perfectly into four portions. This layer of cells is an internalphloem, similar to w
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