The drug plants of Illinois drugplantsofilli44teho Year: 1951 GALIUM APARINE L. Cleaver's herb, cleavers, goose grass. Rubiaceae. —A low, weak, reclining or scrambling, prickly herb, annual; stem square, with recurved prickles, 2 to 5 feet long; leaves oblanceolate, 1 to 3 inches long, 6 or 8 at a node, hispid and rough on the margin and midrib; flowers white, small, in groups (1 to 3) on axillary peduncles; fruit appearing double, fleshy, covered with hooked prickles. The herb collected. Common through- out the state in gardens, along roads and streams, and in moist woods; May and early Jun
The drug plants of Illinois drugplantsofilli44teho Year: 1951 GALIUM APARINE L. Cleaver's herb, cleavers, goose grass. Rubiaceae. —A low, weak, reclining or scrambling, prickly herb, annual; stem square, with recurved prickles, 2 to 5 feet long; leaves oblanceolate, 1 to 3 inches long, 6 or 8 at a node, hispid and rough on the margin and midrib; flowers white, small, in groups (1 to 3) on axillary peduncles; fruit appearing double, fleshy, covered with hooked prickles. The herb collected. Common through- out the state in gardens, along roads and streams, and in moist woods; May and early June. The species of Galium contain either galitannic or apertannic acid, other organic acids, and a bitter principle. Used as a diuretic and refrigerant. GALIUM TRIFLORUM Michx. Sweet-scented bedstraw. Rubiaceae.— A diffuse, low, spreading, mostly unarmed, smooth herb, fragrant in drying, perennial; stems shining, square; leaves narrowly oval, nearly sessile, 6 at a node, cuspidate, 1-nerved; flowers greenish, small, in clus- ters of 3 or in 3 clusters of 3 at the ends of slender, terminal, and axillary peduncles; the fruit appearing double, covered with hooked bristles. The herb collected. Common and abun- dant in moist woods throughout the state. Contains, in addition to the usual Galium constituents, coumarin. Used additionally In nerve disorders.
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