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GILLENIA STIPULACEA/ 



English Name— WESTERN DROPWORT. 



French Name — Gillenia occidentale. 



Ger:man Name — Gillenwurzel. 



Ofeicinal Na:me — Gillenia radix. 



Vulgar Names — Indian Physic, Indian hippo, 

 Ipecacj Beaumont root, Bowman's root, Meadow 

 Sweet, &c. 



Synonyms — Spirea trifoliata Var. Auct. 



Authorities — Pursh, Wildenow, Schoepf, Thatch- 

 er, Coxe, Duncan, Nuttal, Moeneh, Eberle, A, Ives, 

 Baum, W.Bart, fig. 6, &c. 



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Genus Gillenia — Calix campanulatc 5 cleft." Five 



narrow unequal petals inserted on the calyx. Many 

 short Stamina inserted there also. Five coherent 

 pistils, five Styles. ^Capsules five connate at the base, 

 opening inside, unilocular, two seeded. 



Species G. Stipulacea — Lower leaves pinnatifid, 

 upper leaves tri/oliolate, folioles lanceolate [incise 

 serrate ; stipules foliaceous, ovate, oblique, jagged : 

 flowers loosely corymbose. 



DESCRIPTION— Root perennial, dark brown, 

 amorphous, with large and long fleshy fibres. Several 

 Stems from two to three feet high, slender, smooth, 

 brittle, reddish, branched. Leaves large, alternate, 

 ewile, with three folioles and two larcrf* ct mules: 



