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Tribe.—LONICEREE, : 
GENUS.—TRIOSTEU M ,* LINN. 
SEX. SYST.—PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
TRIOSTEUM. 
FEVER-WORT. 
SYN.—TRIOSTEUM PERFOLIATUM, LINN.; TRIOSTEUM MAJUS, MICHX. 
COM. NAMES.—FEVER-WORT, OR ROOT; HORSE-GENTIAN, OR GINSENG; 
WHITE GINSENG; TINKER WEED, OR DR, TINKER’S WEED; BAS- 
TARD, FALSE, OR, WILD IPECAC;+ WILD COFFEE; SWEET-BITTER ; 
CINQUE; (FR.) TRIOSTE; (GER.) DREISTEIN. 
A TINCTURE OF THE FRESH ROOT OF TRIOSTEUM PERFOLIATUM, LINN. 
Description.—This coarse, leafy, perennial herb, grows to a height of from 1 
to 4 feet. Root thick and sarcous, sub-divided into several horizontal sections ; stem 
simple, hollow, glandularly pubescent; /eaves opposite, ample, ovate-spatulate, 
sinuate, acuminate, abruptly narrowed and connate or almost perfoliate at the 
base, prominently reticulate veined and downy pubescent upon the under surface, 
and hairy above. Jnflorescence, axillary whorls at the middle of the stem ; flow- 
ers 1 to 6, dull or reddish purple, sessile. Bracts linear; calyx persistent; /odes 
linear-lanceolate, foliaceous. Corolla elongated cylindro-tubular, curved, gibbous 
at the base, scarcely longer than the calyx lobes, viscidly pubescent; 4é more or 
less equally 5-lobed. Stamens 5, inserted upon the tube of the corolla; f/aments 
hairy; anthers sagittate. Ovary generally 5-celled, each cell 1-ovuled; ovules 
suspended; style filiform, hairy; s#gma 3 to 5-lobed. rut drupaceous, dry, 
orange-colored; zudélets 3-angled and 3-ribbed, 1-seeded; exdocarp osseous, festa 
membranaceous. 
Caprifoliaces.—A large family of shrubs and a few perennial herbs. 
Leaves opposite and destitute of stipules when normal. lowers generally 
5-merous, regular, or sometimes in the corolla irregular, hermaphrodite; calyx 
adnate to the ovary; corolla with its lobes imbricate in aestivation. Séamens as 
many as the lobes of the corolla, alternate with them, and inserted upon its tube. 
(Exc. Adoxa and Linnaea.) Ovary 2 to 5- or, by abortion, 1-celled ; ovu/es anatro- 
pous, when only one then suspended and inverted; raphe dorsal. Embryo small 
in the axis of the fleshy albumen, oe 
The following remedies belonging to this family are of special interest to us 
* Theis, Crets, three; dcréov, osteon, a bone; the fruit having three nutlets, shortened from 7riosteospermum, Dill. 
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+ Applied also to many species of Euphorbia, and to Gillennia trifoliata, Moench. (Rosacez.) 
