32 WILD MEDICINAL PLANTS OF THE UNITED STATES. 



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FraxintlS sambncifolia Lam. Same as Fraxinus nigra. 

 Fringe-tree. See Chionanthns virgimca. 



Fn>st-plant. Bee Heltanthemwn e&nadense. 



Frost weed. See Ifeliantheinum canadense. 

 Kr<»st wort. See HeUatdliemmn oamadense. 



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Fuller' s-herb. See Saponaria officinalis. 



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Fumaria officinalis L. Poppy family (Papaveraceae). 



Fumitory; hedge-fumitory; earth-smoke* 



Annual plant, 10 to 15 inches high, adventive from Europe and found in waste 

 places about dwellings, in cultivated land, and on ballast, Nova Scotia to the 

 Gulf States. 



Pari used. — Herb (nonofficial). 



Fumitory. See Fumaria officinalis. 

 Fumitory, hedge-. See Fumaria officinalis. 



Gagroot. See Lobelia injlata. 

 ( iale, sweet. See Myrica gale. 



Galium aparine L. Madder family I Rubiaceae ). 



Cleavers; goose-grass; cleaverwort; bedstraw; catch weed. 



Annual plant, with weak, procumbent stem, 2 to 6 feet long, growing in shady 

 thickets and margins of woods, New Brunswick south to Florida and Tea 

 Naturalized from Europe. 



Part used. — Herb of this and of other species of Galium (nonofficial). 



Galiweed. See Gentiana quinquefolia. 

 Garden-balm. See Melissa officinalis. 



Ga rden-celandine. See Chelidonium majus. 



Garden-columbine. See AquHegia vulgaris. 

 Garden-valerian. See Valeriana officinalis. 

 Garget. See Phytolacca decandra. 



Gaultheria procumbens L. Heath family (Ericaceae). 



Wintergreen; checkerberry; mountain-tea; teaberry; deerberry. 



Small, native perennial, with evergreen leaves, found in sandy soils in cool 

 damp woods, especially under evergreen trees, in Canada and the northeastern 



United States. 



Fart us<d.— Leaves (nonofficial) ; the oil of gaultheria, distilled from the leaves. 

 is official. 



Gay-feather. See Lacinaria scariosa and /,. spieata* 



Gelsemium. See Gelsemium sempervirens. 



Gelsemium sempervirens (L.) Ait. f. Logania family CLoganiaceae) . 



Gelsemium; yellow jasmine; Carolina jasmine; wild woodbine. 



Twining, shrubby perennial, native, growing on low ground in woods and 

 thickets from eastern Virginia to Florida and Texas, mostly near tin* coast. 



Parts used. — Rhizome and roots (official). 

 Gemfruit. See Tiarella cord [folia. 



Gentian, American. See G> Hana saponaria. 



Gentian, blue. See Gentiana saponaria. 

 Gentian, five-flowered. See Gentiana (jwinquefolia. 

 Gentian, horse-. See Triosteum perfoliaturn. 

 Gentian, marsh-. See Gentiana viUosa. 

 Gentian, snake-. See Xabalus serpentarius. 



