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CALAMUS. 



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^ SH Name— SWEET FLAG. 



FiiENCH Name — Acore ODORANT.i..^ ^/ 

 German Name — Kalmus, 



Officinal Names — Calamus Aromaticus, Calami 

 Radix. 



Vulgar Names — Flag-root, Sweet Cane, Myrtle 



Flag, Sweet Grass, Sweet Root, Sweet Rush. 



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Authorities— Linnaeus, Michaux, Pursh, Dispen- 

 saries, Schoepf, Woodville, Thacher, Coxe, Swediaur, 

 Bigelo\v*s Sequel, W. Barton fig. 30 bad, &c. «S'c. 



Genus Acorus— Spadix cylindrical with crowded 

 flowers. Perigone simple, six-parted persistent. 

 Stamina six pericentric. Germen one, no style, stig- 

 ma punctiform. Capsuls three celled, many seeded. 



Species A. Calamus Var. A-aiericanus— Leaves 

 and stems sword shaped, ancipital, stems longer. 

 Spadix cylindrical, obtuse, solitary, oblique, subme- 



dial lateral. Capsu)^ oblong acufe. 



DESCRIPTION— Root perennial, horizontal, 

 jointed, rugose, nearly cylindrical, from six to 

 twenty-four inches long, joints from half an inch to 

 an inch long, white, with triangular shades, or rings 

 of brown and rose ; the inside is spongy, and loses 

 much by dessication ; bunches of coarse fibres hang 



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