. The drug plants of Illinois. Botany, Medical; Botany. GIMIGIFUGA RAGEMOSA (L.) Nutt. Black cohosh, black snakeroot, squaw-root, rattle root. Ranuncula- ceae.—An erect, several-stemmed herb, 4 to 8 feet tall, perennial; rhizome thick, horizontal, knotty and rough, dark brown, 2 to 6 inches long, with the form of a cross inside when broken; stems slender, not usually branched, leafy about midway to the top; leaves bright green, decompound, very large, 2 or 3 in number, alternate; leaflets thin, smooth, cut-serrate, 1 to 3 inches long; flowers white, Yi inch wide, ill-scented, numerous, in a lo
. The drug plants of Illinois. Botany, Medical; Botany. GIMIGIFUGA RAGEMOSA (L.) Nutt. Black cohosh, black snakeroot, squaw-root, rattle root. Ranuncula- ceae.—An erect, several-stemmed herb, 4 to 8 feet tall, perennial; rhizome thick, horizontal, knotty and rough, dark brown, 2 to 6 inches long, with the form of a cross inside when broken; stems slender, not usually branched, leafy about midway to the top; leaves bright green, decompound, very large, 2 or 3 in number, alternate; leaflets thin, smooth, cut-serrate, 1 to 3 inches long; flowers white, Yi inch wide, ill-scented, numerous, in a long, terminal raceme, opening from the base to the top; fruit a dry pod about ]4 inch long. The rhizome and roots collected after the fruit has ripened. Rare and very local in rich, open woods in the extreme south- ern part of the state. Contains several resins and tannin, f sed as a tonic, astringent, bitter, and sedative. GIRSIUM ARVENSE (L.) Scop. Ganada thistle. Compositae.—^An erect, heavily spine-armed, rigid, branched, near- ly smooth herb XYi to 3 feet high, peren- nial; rootstock and root system creeping, extensive, deep; leaves oblong, irregularly much-lobed and armed with long, spiny teeth, alternate; flower heads rose-purple, 1 inch wide, their bracts spineless, in termi- nal and axillary clusters; seeds light to dark brown, small, capped by a cottony tuft of hairs which soon is lost. The leaves, also the root, collected. Widely distributed in the state as a weed of fields and waste places. Used as an antiphlogistic, tonic, and diuretic. GITRULLUS VULGARIS Schrad. Watennelon. Cucurbitaceae. Seed of the black-seeded varieties col- lected. Cultivated in farm gardens in all parts of the state and as an important crop in most of the state's sand regions. Contains a resin-yielding cucurbital and a fixed oil. Used as a diuretic and anthel- Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability
Size: 1464px × 1708px
Photo credit: © The Book Worm / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., boo, bookcentury1900, booksubjectbotany, booksubjectbotanymedical
