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The clusters of berries should be carefully dried in the shade. They 
are poisonous, have no odor, a sweetish taste at first, then acrid. 
Fria. 11.—Pokeweed, flowering and fruiting branch. 
Pokeweed has a very large, fleshy, and poisonous root, conical in 
shape and branched. (Fig. 12.) It should be 
gathered in the latter part of the fall, thoroughly 
cleaned, cut into transverse slices, and carefully 
dried. When dry it has a grayish, wrinkled ap- 
pearance, breaks with a fibrous fracture, and the 
slices show many concentric rings. There is a 
slight odor and the taste is sweetish and acrid. 
Both the berries and roots are alterative, act 
upon the bowels and cause vomiting, and prepa- 
rations made from them are used in treating 
various diseases of the skin and blood, and in 
certain cases In relieving pain and allaying inflam- 
mation. = 
Price.—Phytolacca or pokeroot brings from 
2 to 5 cents per pound. and the dry berries 
about 5 cents per pound. 
Fre. i12.—Pokeroot. 
FOXGLOVE. 
Digitalis purpurea L. 
- Other common names.—Purple foxglove, thimbles, fairy cap, fairy 
fingers, fairy thimbles, fairy bells, dog’s finger, finger flower, lady’s” 
glove, ladyfingers, lady's thimble, popdock, flapdock, flopdock, 
