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DESCRIPTION OF MEDICINAL PLANTS. 
lobes minute and incurved ; pod slender-pedicelled, smooth. 
FI. July. In sandy soil. The horizontally creeping root 
is collected. 
Stillingia sylvatica, L. Queen’s Delight. Herbaceous peren- 
nial, 1—3° high, with almost sessile, oblong-lanceolate, ser- 
rulate leaves. Flowers monoecious, aggregated in a ter- 
minal spike. Petals and glands of the disk, none. Calyx 
2-3 cleft or parted ; the divisions imbricated in the bud. 
Stamens 2-3 ; anthers adnate, turned outward. Style thick ; 
stigmas 3, diverging, simple. Capsule 3-celled, 3-lobed, 3- 
seeded. Sandy soils, along the Mississippi river, Memphis. 
FI. June-July. Collect in spring. 
URTICACEiE. (Nettle Family.) 
TJlmus fulva, Michx. Slippery or Red Elm. A small or 
middle-sized tree, 40-50° high, with tough reddish wood 
and a very mucilaginous inner bark. Buds before expan- 
sion soft-downy, with rusty hairs ; leaves ovate-oblong, 
taper-pointed, doubly serrate, 4-8' long, sweet-scented in dry- 
ing, soft-downy beneath, or slightly rough downward ; 
branchlets downy. Calyx bell-shaped, 5-9 cleft. . Stamens 
5-9, on long slender filaments ; styles 2, short, diverging, 
stigmatic along the inner edge. Fruit a 1-celled and 1- 
seeded samara, winged all around, 8-9" wide, pubescent. 
Along water-courses, in rich woods. FI. March. The in- 
ner bark is used. 
Cannabis sativa, L. Hemp. A tall, roughish annual, 6-8° high. 
Flowers dioecious; the sterile in axillary compound racemes 
or panicles, with 5 sepals and 5 drooping stamens. Fertile 
flowers, spiked-clustered, 1-bracted ; the calyx of a single 
sepal, enlarging at the base and folded around the ovary. 
Achenes crustaceous. Leaves digitate, of 5-7 linear-lance- 
olate, coarsely-toothed leaflets, the upper alternate. The 
inner bark of very tough fibres. Escaping into waste ground, 
but not spreading. The flower-tops and the seeds. 
Humulns Lupulus, L. Hop. A twining rough perennial having 
