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PHARMACEUTICAL BOTANY 
UnorriciAL Druc PART Usep BoTANICAL ORIGIN HABITAT 
Herba Majoranz Leaves and Origanum Mediterranean 
(Sweet Marjoram) flowering tops Majorana regions 
Collinsonia Rhizome and roots Collinsonia 
(Stone Root) canadense United States 
Serpyllum Leaves and Thymus Europe and Asia 
(Wild Thyme) flowering tops Serpyllum 
Melissa (Balm) Leaves and Melissa officinalis Southern Europe, 
flowering tops Asia Minor 
Monarda Leaves and Monarda punctata United States 
(Horsemint) flowering tops 
Origanum Leaves and Origanum vulgare Europe, Asia and 
flowering tops North Africa 
Hyssopus Leaves and Hyssopus Southern Europe 
flowering tops officinalis 
Summer Savory Leaves Satureja hortensis Southern Europe 
Mountain Mint Leaves Pycnanthemum United States 
montanum 
Sweet Basil Leaves Ocimum Basilicum Asia and Africa 
Motherwort Leaves and Leonurus Cardiaca Europe 
flowering tops 
Lavender Flowers Lavandula Spica _S. Europe 
Rosmarinus Leaves Rosmarinus - j 
ers Mediterranean 
officinalis Basi 
Greek Tea Herb = 
Sideritis spp. 
SOLANACE2 oR NiGutsHapE Famiry.—Herbs (potato, 
tomato, horsenettle), shrubs (Lycium spp.), vines (Solanum dulca- 
mara or bittersweet), rarely trees as in some tropical Daturas. 
‘Stems and leaves possess bicollateral bundles. Many of the 
plants as belladonna, stramonium, hyoscyamus and scopola 
contain mydriatic alkaloids. Leaves alternate, exstipulate, 
entire or more or Jess lobed, rarely compound; often glandular- 
hairy. Flowers in cymes or solitary; regular or rarely irregular 
(Petunia, Tobacco spp.), pentamerous, perfect, synphyllous; 
sepals green (rarely petaloid), rotate to tubular, usually per- 
sistent and accrescent; petals rotate (Solanum), to tubular 
(Atropa), to funnel-shaped (Tobacco), and so (1) open to all 
comers, or (2) to bees or wasps, or (3) to butterflies, moths; 
color, greenish-yellow, or greenish-white, to white, to pink, 
crimson, purple, rarely blue; stamens five, epipetalous, hypog- 
ynous, along with style usually forming nectar glands. Fila- 
ments short to long, anthers dehiscing longitudinally or by 
apical pores; pistil bicarpellate, syncarpous, with or without 
