TRIOSTEUM PERFOLIATUM, 
Feverworr. Wild Ipecac. 
Geog. Position. United States. 
Quality. Bitter. 
Power. Cathartic, tonic. 
Use. Intermittent fevers, ague. 
BOTANICAL ANALYSIS. 
Natural Classification. 
Orper CAPRIFOLIACEA. 
Linnean Classification. 
Cuass V. Pentandria. Orver Monogynia. 
AutHorities.— Lin. Sp. Pl. 250. Willd. Sp. Pl. I. 990. Pursh. Flor. N. A. 
I. 162. Lind. Flor Med. 445. Bigelow, Med. Bot.1.90. Barton, Veg. Mat. Med. 
1.59. Raf. Med. Flor. Il. 269. U.S. Disp. 741. Ec. Disp. U. S. 404. Loud. 
Encye. Pi. 170. Thomson, Mat. Med. *102. Griff. Med. Bot. 352. Gray, Bot. 
Text-Book, 803. Howard, Bot. Med. 296. Kost, Mat. Med. 121. Wood, Class- 
Book, 300. 
Genus TRIOSTEUM. — 
From Greek rpeis, three, and doréov, bone; three bones, on account of its three 
bony seeds. ; 
Syrvonymes. — Breitblattriger Dreystein (Ger.). 
Tue Essentian Cuaracters. 
Catyx. Adherent to the ovary (superior). The limb five- 
(rarely four-) cleft or toothed. 
Coroutia. Tubular or rotate, regular or irregular. 
Stamens. As many, or one less than as many, as the lobes 
of the corolla, alternate with them, and inserted on the tube. 
Ovary. ‘Three- (rarely four or five-) celled. Style one. 
Stigma one — four. as Bea 
Fruir. Baccate, fleshy or dry, crowned with the persi 
 ealyx lobes. a | 5 ape 
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