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DESCRIPTION OP MEDICINAL PLANTS. 
numerous leaflets (13-15) which are lanceolate, taper-pointed 
and sharply serrate. Calyx tube urn-shaped, petals roundish. 
Cymes compound ; pome berry-like, size of peas. FI. June. 
The bark. 
CALYCANTHACEiE. (Calycanthus Family.) 
Calycanthus floridus, L. Carolina Allspice. Shrub with op- 
posite oval leaves, downy underneath. Calyx of many sepals, 
united below into a fleshy inversely conical cup; the lobes 
lanceolate, mostly colored like the petals, which are similar, 
in many rows, thickish, inserted on the top of the closed 
calyx-tube. The lurid purple flowers terminating the leafy 
branches. Bark and foliage aromatic. The crushed flowers 
exhaling the odor of strawberries. Apparently rare and only 
found in few localities. It is frequently cultivated in gardens. 
C. lsevigatus and glaucus occur in the Cumberland Mountains 
and Alleghanies. 
Calycanthus glaucus, Willd. Similar to the foregoing but in every 
way larger and stouter; leaves oblong-ovate or ovate-lauce- 
olate, conspicuously taper- pointed, glaucous-white beneath, 
roughish above, glabrous, large, 4-7' long. Frequent in the 
Cumberland Mountains about Whiteside, and still more so 
in the Smoky Mountains — Tnckaleechee Cove. FI. June. 
The bark. This species is preferred for medicinal prepara- 
tions in the latest U. S. Dispensatory. 
SAXIFRAGACEiE. (Saxifrage Family.). 
Heuchera Americana, L. Alum Root. Perennial, the roundish 
leaves with short roundish lobes, from the rootstock. Flower- 
stems from 1J- 2° high, glandular and more or less hirsute, 
with short hairs. The lobes of the leaves rounded and with 
crenate teeth. Calyx bell-shaped, 5-cleft, stamens 5, styles 
2, capsule one celled. Rocky woodlands and river-banks. 
The root is collected in fall. 
Hydrangea arborescens, L. Seven Bark. Shrub with opposite 
petioled leaves and numerous flowers in compound cymes. 
