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CULVER'S ROOT: Culver's Physic: 



Veronica virginica. 

 Figwort Family. July — Aug. 



An erect plant with straight, usually un- 

 branched stem 2—7 feet high. Found in moist 

 woods, meadows. Western Massachusetts and 

 Connecticut to Manitoba and southward. 

 Flowers — White or pale lavender, in dense, ter- 

 minal spikes 3-6 inches long. 

 Leaves — 4—7, in whorls, lance-shaped, pointed, 

 finely toothed. 



JAMESTOWN or JIMSON WEED: Thorn- 

 apple : Stramonium : Devil's Trumpet. 



Datura Stramonium. 

 Nightshade Family. July — Sept. 



A plant 1-5 feet tall. Found in fields, waste 

 land. Nova Scotia to Gulf, west beyond the 

 Mississippi Naturalized from Asia. 

 Flowers — White, about 4 inches long, trumpet- 

 shaped, with 5 sharply-pointed lobes. 

 Fruit large, egg-shaped, covered with 

 spines. 

 Leaves — Coarsely toothed and angled, rank- 

 smelling. 



ASTERS— See page 304. 



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