. The drug plants of Illinois. Botany, Medical; Botany. DIPSAGUS SYLVESTRIS Huds. TeaseL Dipsacaceae.—^An erect, branched prickly herb 3 to 9 feet tall, biennial; stem stiff, stout, angled, coarsely prickly; leaves lanceolate, the lowest leaves sessile, veiny, and very spiny; the stem leaves tending to be connate around the stem, prickly on the margins, irregularly serrate; flowers lilac, small, in dense, cylindric, long-bracted heads 3 to 4 inches long; the head at maturity furnished with numerous long, straight, stiff, barbed awns. The seed collected. Introduced and nat- uralized; an infrequ
. The drug plants of Illinois. Botany, Medical; Botany. DIPSAGUS SYLVESTRIS Huds. TeaseL Dipsacaceae.—^An erect, branched prickly herb 3 to 9 feet tall, biennial; stem stiff, stout, angled, coarsely prickly; leaves lanceolate, the lowest leaves sessile, veiny, and very spiny; the stem leaves tending to be connate around the stem, prickly on the margins, irregularly serrate; flowers lilac, small, in dense, cylindric, long-bracted heads 3 to 4 inches long; the head at maturity furnished with numerous long, straight, stiff, barbed awns. The seed collected. Introduced and nat- uralized; an infrequent to common plant along transportation lines and roads and in fields and waste places; a troublesome weed. DROSERA ROTUNDIFOLIA L. Sundew, round-leaved sundew. Dros- eraceae.—A low, small, insect-catching herb with flat, round, tentacled leaves ]/^ to Y2 inch long, which spread on flat petioles up to 2 inches long; flowers red to white, small, in a 1-sided raceme at the top of a 4- to 10-inch flower stalk. The herb in flower collected. Rare in sphagnum and tamarack bogs in extreme northeastern counties. Furnishes a bitter, acrid resin. Used as a pectoral. EPIGAEA REPENS L. Gravel plant, trailing arbutus, ground laurel, May- flower. Ericaceae.—A prostrate, run- ning, low, evergreen shrub up to 4 inches high; stems woody, spreading, rooting at the joints, clothed with stiff, brown hairs; branches upright or trailing, glandular- hairy; leaves oval, leathery, cordate, 1 to 3 inches long, alternate; flowers pinkish, waxy, very fragrant, in small clusters in the axil of the topmost leaf. The leaves collected at flowering time. Infrequent to rare, and local, in sandy woods in the extreme northeastern corner of the state. Contents said to be similar to those of Arctostaphylos Uva-ursi. Used as a sub- stitute for or in place of Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - colora
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