DESCRIPTION OF MEDICINAL PLANTS. 
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ANONACEiE. (Custard- Apple Family.) 
Asimina triloba, Dunal. Papaw. Shrub or small tree. Calyx 
of 3 sepals and a corolla of 6 petals, in two rows; petals 
thickish, purple. Fruit 3-4' long, pulpy, edible. FI. 
April. Along banks of streams; common. 
MENISPERMACEiE. (Moonseed Family.) 
Menispermum Canadense, L. Moonseed. Woody climbers with 
leaves peltate near the edge, 3-7 angled or lobed. Flowers 
panicled, with 4-8 sepals in two rows; 6-8 petals, the males 
with 12-24 stamens. The fruit is a compressed drupe, black, 
with a bloom, ripe in September. Seed forming a crescent. 
Collect the rhizome. 
BERBERIDACEiE. (Barberry Family.) 
Caulophyllum thalictroides, Michx. Blue Cohosh. Pappoose- 
ROOT. Perennial, glabrous herb, with matted knotty root- 
stocks from which spring up single leaves on 1-2J° long 
stems, and panicles of yellowish-green flowers, which appear 
while the leaf is yet small. Leaves 3-ternately compound. 
Fruit deep- blue globose berries, contracted below so as to 
approach pear-shaped. Whole plant glaucous when young. 
FI. April. Rich ravines and mountain sides over the State. 
Very abundant on the summits of some of the Cumberland 
high ridges. The rhizome, collected in fall. 
Jeffersonia diphylla, Barton. Twin-leaf, Rheumatism- root. 
A perennial, glabrous herb, with matted, fibrous roots, long 
petioled root-leaves, parted into two half-ovate leaflets and 
simple naked, 1-flowered scapes, 6-8' high ; flower white, V 
broad, sepals 4, fugacious. Petals 8, oblong, flat, stamens 8. 
Fruit a pear-shaped pod, opening halfway round horizontally, 
the upper part making a lid. Rich woodlands. FI. April- 
May ; frequent. The rhizome, collected in fall. 
Podophyllum peltatum, L. May-Apple. Herbaceous plants 
with thick, creeping rootstocks, from which rises in spring a 
stem bearing two leaves, with a solitary flower between them. 
