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ALETRIS FARINOSA 



English Name— MEALY STARWORT. 



French Name — Aletris Meunier. 



German Name — Mehlige Sterngrass. 



Officinal Name — Aletris Radix. 



Vulgar Names — Star-Grass, Blazing Star, Alo- 

 root, Bitter Grass, Unicorn Root, Ague Root/ Ague 

 Grass, Star-root, DeviPs-bit. 



Authorities— Linnseus, Wildenow, Michaiir; 

 Schoepf, Pursh, Elliot, Cutler, Bigelow Mat. Med. 

 fig. 50 bad, Bigelow Sequel, &c. 



Genus •Aletris — Perigone simple, corolliform, 

 tubular, persisten , six cleft, wrinkled, six stamina 

 inserted at the base of the segments. Germ one 

 oblong. Style one triangular tripartible Capsul 

 three celled, many seeded, opening at the top — Leaves 

 radical, stem simple, scaly, flowers in a slender spike. 



Species Al. Farinosa — Leaves lanceolate mucro- 

 nate membranaceous, scales adpressed, subulate, 

 flowers cylindrical, xvhite, farinaceous. 



DESCRIPTION— Root perennial small, black 

 outside, brown inside, ramose, crooked — Radical 

 leaves from six to twelve, ^spreading on the ground 

 like a star ; but all ^mcqnal in size, sessile, lanceolate, 

 entire, very satoolb, memoraoace.*us, with many 

 longitudinal veins, sometimes canaliculate, very 



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