DESCRIPTION OF MEDICINAL PLANTS. 
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COMPOSITE. (Composite Family.) 
Elephantopus tomentosus, L. Elephant’s-foot. A perennial 
rather homely plant, basal leaves obovate or narrowly spatu- 
late, silky and prominently veined beneath ; stems scape- like, 
with a few bract-like leaves or naked. Heads discoid, 2-5 
flowered, several together clustered into a compound pedun- 
culated head; flowers perfect. Involucre narrow, flattened, 
of 8 oblong dry scales. Achenes 10 ribbed ; pappus of stout 
bristles, chaffy- dilated at the base. Cumberland Mountains 
and East Tennessee. The following species is very much like 
it and answers the same purpose. 
Elephantopus Carolinianus, Willd. It has a leafy stem, the upper 
leaves very like the basal. It is slightly hairy, rather smooth 
looking. Leaves obovate, thin. Over all dry hills and ridges 
ot Middle Tennessee. FI. June-August. Collect the leaves 
and flower-tops before they are in full bloom. A fluid ex- 
tract is prepared from it. (Eli Lilly & Co.) 
Vernonia fasciculata, Mich. Iron-weed. Upright, robust peren- 
nial herb from a matted rootstock, with leafy stems with alter- 
nate, oblong-lanceolate, rigidly serrate leaves. Flower> in 
corymbose cymes, heads discoid, 15-many-flowered ; flowers 
perfect. Involucre shorter than the flowers, of many, much 
imbricated scales. Receptacle naked. Achenes cylindrical, 
ribbed; pappus double, the outer of minute, scale-like bris- 
tles, the inner of copious capillary bristles. Abundant every- 
where in rich, uncultivated soils. FI. July-August. The root 
is collected. 
Eupatorium perfoliatum, L. Thoroughwort. Boneset. Stem 
stout, 4-6° high, hairy ; leaves opposite, clasping at the base, 
tapering to a slender point, serrate, very wiry, wrinkled, 
downy beneath, 5-8" long. Heads 10-15, sometimes 30 
flowered ; corolla 5-toothed, achenes 5-angled ; pappus a single 
row of slender capillary roughish bristles, flowers white; 
corymbs very compound and large. Low grounds, abound- 
ing. Tbe leaves and flower-tops are collected in June-July. 
Eupatorium aromaticum, L. White Snakeroot. Lower and 
