TAXONOMY 



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Unofficial drug Part used Botanical name 



Calamus Unpeeled rhizome Acorus calamus 



Skunk cabbage 

 Indian turnip 



Rhizome 



Corm; 



Symplocarpus 



foetidus 

 Arissema 



triphyllum 



Habitat 

 Europe, Asia, 

 North America 

 North America 



North America 



FiC. 166. Acorus calamus. (Sayre.) 



IV. Order Liliales. Liliacea or Lily Family. Herbs (Lilium), 

 shrubs (Yucca), or trees (Dracena Draco), with regular and sym- 

 metrical almost always six-androus flowers. Stem either short, 



