. The drug plants of Illinois. Botany, Medical; Botany. FRAGARIA VESGA L. Strawberry. Alpine strawberry. Rosaceae. The leaves collected, also the fruit. Cultivated in home and farm gardens throughout the state and locally in many places in fields of some size; persists after being planted but does not become estab- lished. The fruit contains salicylic acid and malic acid. Said to have astringent and diuretic properties but is valuable chiefly for the fruit syrup which is used as a pleasant ve- hicle for medicines. \_Fragaria 'virginiana Dene., Virginia strawberry, is native throughout the stat
. The drug plants of Illinois. Botany, Medical; Botany. FRAGARIA VESGA L. Strawberry. Alpine strawberry. Rosaceae. The leaves collected, also the fruit. Cultivated in home and farm gardens throughout the state and locally in many places in fields of some size; persists after being planted but does not become estab- lished. The fruit contains salicylic acid and malic acid. Said to have astringent and diuretic properties but is valuable chiefly for the fruit syrup which is used as a pleasant ve- hicle for medicines. \_Fragaria 'virginiana Dene., Virginia strawberry, is native throughout the state; except for the small size of its fruit, it is hardly distinguishable from the foregoing species and may be collected also, for both its fruit and leaves. The fruit is said to be refrigerant.] I. FRASERA GAROLINENSIS Walt. American columbo, calumba. Gentia- naceae.—An erect, coarse, little-branched, smooth herb 3 to 7 feet tall, perennial; taproot large, spindle-shaped; stem stout; leaves lanceolate, on the stem 3 to 6 inches long, petioled, entire, 4 at a node; flowers yellowish white dotted with purple-brown, short-pedicelled, numerous in a large, terminal, cymose inflorescence; fruit an oval, flattened, few-seeded capsule. The root collected. Infrequent to rare but in all parts of the state in dry oak woods. Contains the bitter principle gentiopicrin and gentisic acid. Used as an emetic, a cathartic, and a bitter tonic. I I. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Tehon, L. R. (Leo Roy), 1895-1954. Urbana, Ill. : Natural History Survey Division
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