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children eating the seeds or from the leaves being used as a pot- 
herb, usually with fatal results. It is used chiefly as a remedy 
in asthma, by burning and inhaling the smoke, and is often made 
into cigarettes for this purpose. The leaves contain the alkaloids 
daturine and hyoscyamine, some atropine and scopalamine. 
oE-PyE Weep (Eupatorimn purpurcum), Trumpet weed, N.O. 
This plant is an herbaceous perennial growing in low places, dry 
woods and meadows in the eastern and western U.S. The root 
is the medicinal part, and was named after an Indian who lived in 
New England and employed it as a diaphoretic in fevers. It has 
an odor resembling old hay, and a slightly bitter, not unpleasant, 
aromatic taste. In the form of the decoction it has diuretic, stimu- 
lant and tonic effects upon the renal tract. 
Junreer (Juniperus communis) N.F. The plant is a shrub 
common to the North Temperate Zone and the dried ripe berry- 
like fruit (galbulus) yields a volatile oil much used in medicine as a 
diuretic and carminative. The volatile oil is also a constituent of 
the popular spirit known as gin. 
Larkspur (Delphinium Ajacis) N.F. This species of larkspur 
is a native of southern Europe and is commonly cultivated as a 
garden flower. Because of the poisonous alkaloids present in the 
seed it is largely used externally as a parasiticide; especially for 
head lice. 
LaveNvER (Lavandula spica) N.O. Lavender is a low grow- 
ing shrub native in the Mediterranean countries but widely culti- 
vated especially in France and England. The whole plant is aro- 
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matic. The flowers have a rich peculiar fragrance which is re- 
tained long after drying, and a strong, bitter, aromatic, somewhat 
camphoraceous taste. Although the crude drug of Lavandula 
spica is not official, the oil distilled from the fresh flowering tops 
of Lavandula officinalis Chaix ex Villards (L. vera de Candolle) 
is official (Olewm lavandulae U.S.P.). The oil is largely used in 
pharmacy. It is an effective stimulant and carminative. 
Licorice (Glycyrrhiza glabra) and its varieties U.S.P. The 
licorice plants are low, soft-wooded shrubs of southern [europe 
and southwestern Asia. It has been an article of domestic use 
since the earliest days, and was common in England during the 
Middle Ages. The ye 
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