. The drug plants of Illinois . JUNIPERUS VIRGINIANA L. Red cedar, juniper. Pinaceae.—A small, erect, evergreen tree (not shrubby in Illinois) 20 to 50 feet tall; trunk lobed, eccentric, and buttressed, with thin, red- tinted, fibrous, peeling bark; foliage in the form of needles and scales; needles dark green, slender, 14 to ^ inch long, 4 ranked; scales closely appressed, 1/16 inch long, 4 ranked; fruit a small, blue, glaucous, globose, 1- or 2-seeded berry. Throughout the state on rocky bluffs and cliffs, hillsides, wasteland, and aban- doned fields. The wood yields cedarwood oil. The oil i
. The drug plants of Illinois . JUNIPERUS VIRGINIANA L. Red cedar, juniper. Pinaceae.—A small, erect, evergreen tree (not shrubby in Illinois) 20 to 50 feet tall; trunk lobed, eccentric, and buttressed, with thin, red- tinted, fibrous, peeling bark; foliage in the form of needles and scales; needles dark green, slender, 14 to ^ inch long, 4 ranked; scales closely appressed, 1/16 inch long, 4 ranked; fruit a small, blue, glaucous, globose, 1- or 2-seeded berry. Throughout the state on rocky bluffs and cliffs, hillsides, wasteland, and aban- doned fields. The wood yields cedarwood oil. The oil is used as a rubefacient. LAGTUGA SATIVA L. Lettuce, garden lettuce. Compositae. The leaves collected. Grown in home and truck gardens throughout the state. Contains lactucol, lactucopicrin, and, to a slight extent, hyoscjamine. Reputed to be useful as a sedative.
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