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DESCRIPTION OF MEDICINAL PLANTS. 
Leaflets rounded wedge-obovate J-1J' long; stipules and 
bracts minute and deciduous. Flowers yellow with 4-5 
toothed calyx. Standard no longer than the wings; keel- 
petals nearly separate, and like the wings, straight. Pod 
stalked in the persistent calyx, on a stalk longer than the 
calyx. Plant turning black in drying. July. Very co- 
piously throughout the Cumberland and Alleghany Mount- 
ains. The root. 
ROSACEiE. (Rose Family.) 
Prunus Virginiana, L. Choke-Cherry. A tall shrub, with 
grayish bark ; leaves oval, oblong or obovate, abruptly pan- 
icled, very sharply serrate with slender teeth ; flowers in 
racemes terminating leafy branches ; petals roundish, fruit 
red. FI. May. East Tennessee. The bark. 
Prunus serotina, Ehrh. Wild Black Cherry. A large tree, 
with reddish brown branches, leaves taper-pointed with in- 
curved short and callous teeth, thickish, shining above; 
racemes elongated, petals obovate; fruit purplish-black. 
Frequent, over the State. The bark, collected in October. 
Gillenia trifoliata, Meench. Indian Physic. Bowman’s Root. 
Perennial herbaceous plant, with nearly sessile 3-foliolate 
leaves; leaflets ovate oblong, pointed, cut-serrate; stipules 
small, awl-shaped, entire. Calyx narrow, 5-toothed ; teeth 
erect. Petals 5, unequal linear-lanceolate, inserted in the 
throat of the calyx, convolute in the bud. Stamens 10-20 
included. Pods 5, included, at first slightly cohering with 
each other, 2-4 seeded. FI. July. Eastern part of the State, 
frequent. 
Gillenia stipulacea, Nutt. American Ipecac. Differs from the 
former by deeply incised leaflets and large, leaf-like, doubly 
incised stipules. July. Of both the rootstock is collected 
in fall. 
Agrimonia Eupatoria, L. Agrimony. A common way-side plant, 
frequently abundant in new clearings, has interruptedly pin- 
nate leaves, a scarcely branched stem 1-2° high, and an 
