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Senticoses, family Spireadia, and to Icosandria 

 pentagynia. The G. Siipulacea was only lately des- 

 cribed. It offers many varieties, 1. Unijlora^ ^.Tin- 

 natijiday 3» Virgata^ 4. Variegaia^ &c. Cattle do. 

 not eat it. ' 



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Qtjai-ities — Roots scentless, taste bitter but not 

 unpleasant. Containing a resin, extractire, ligninc, 

 fecula, amarine, and a coloring matter, which dies 



the solutions red, 



PROPERTIES — ^Both species are emetic, cathar- 



tic, and tonic; but the O. stipulacea is by far the 

 best and strongest. It has even happened that the 

 G. trifoliata has proved inert, in some cases, when 

 old, or taken from cultivated plants : while the O* 

 9tipulacea has never failed, and supersedes]the Ipecac 

 in common practice throughout the West. It is as 



mild and f^ffiripnt^mildcr than the JEuphorbia COroU 



lata. The roots^ are collected in the fall, and kept 

 in many stores: the bark of the root is chiefly used, 

 but the woody part is not inert as supposed. The 

 dose is from 15 to 30 grains of the powder. It ope- 

 rates often also as a cathartic In small doses it be- 

 comes a tonic, and is used in intermittents. The In- 

 dians employed it, and look larger doses or strong 

 decoctions of it, which operated violently; this prac- 

 tice is yet followed and brings on debility: Eberle 

 has successfully used the G. trifoliata in dyspepsia, 

 also in dysentery with opium. It is given in decoc- 

 tion to horses and cattle as a tonic and digestive. 



Substitutes — Euphorbia Sp, •Sanguinaria^'^ 



Ipecacuana and all the mild Emetics. 



