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Unofficial drug 
Part used 
Botanical name 
Habitat 
Amygdala Amara 
Seed 
Prunus amygdalus 
var. amara. 
Asia Minor, Persia, 
Syria 
Cydonium 
Seed 
Cydonia vulgaris 
Cultivated widely 
Rosa Centifolia 
Petals 
Rosa centifolia 
Western Asia 
Rosa Canina 
Spurious Fruit 
Rosa canina 
Europe 
Tormentilla 
Rhizome 
Potentilla 
silvestris 
Europe and Asia 
Fig. 156 . — Prunus domestica — Fruiting branch and flowering branch. (Sayre.) 
Leguminosce or Pea Family ( Fabacece ). — Herbs, shrubs or trees 
of all regions, with tubercled roots. Stem usually erect, rarely 
creeping (Trifolium repens). Leaves alternate, compound — rarely 
simple — stipulate, sometimes tendriliform or reduced to phvlloid 
petioles (Acacia sp.). Inflorescence a raceme, at times, condensed 
almost to a head or capitulum (Sp. of clover, Mimosa, etc.). Flowers 
pentamerous (rarely four), regular {Mimosece ) , to irregular (Ccesal- 
pinece, Papilionacece). Sepals five united, green; petals five 
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