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DESCRIPTION OF MEDICINAL PLANTS. 
barrens around Tullahoma, and the barrens beyond Dickson 
abound with it. FI. July-August. The rootstock, col- 
lected late in summer. 
Veratrum viride, Ait. American White Hellebore. A ro- 
bust herbaceous perennial, with simple stems from a thick- 
ened base, producing coarse fibrous roots. Stem stout, very 
leafy to the top, 2-7° high ; leaves 3-ranked, plaited and 
strongly veined, broadly oval, pointed, sheath-clasping; pan- 
icle pyramidal, the dense spike-like racemes spreading ; pe- 
rianth yellowish-green, moderately spreading, the segments 
ciliate-serrulate ; ovary glabrous; capsule many-seeded. In 
the coves on the foot of the Smoky Mountains. FI. July. 
Collect the root late in autumn. 
JUNCACE2E. (Rush Family.) 
Juncus effusus, L. Common or Soft Rush. Grass-like or 
rush-like herb, with small flowers, a regular and hypogynous 
persistent perianth of 6 similar glumaceous sepals, 3 stamens 
and a single short style, 3-filiform, hairy stigmas and 3- 
celled ovary. Scape soft and pliant, 2-4° high ; inner sheaths 
awned, panicle diffusely much branched, many-flowered ; 
flowers small, 1 long, greenish, solitary on the pedicels or 
ultimate ramifications of the panicle. Sepals lanceolate, 
very acute, as long as the narrow triangular obovate refuse 
and pointless greenish-brown capsule. Anthers as long as- 
the filaments ; style very short; sheaths at base of the stem 
leafless. Around ponds and ditches, common. FI. May. In 
homeopathic practice only. 
ARACEiE. (Arum Family.) 
Arum triphyllum, Torr. Indian Turnip. Low perennial herb, 
with a tuberous rootstock or corm, sending up a simple 
scape sheathed with the petioles of the compound veiny 
leaves. Leaves mostly 2, divided into 3 elliptical-ovate, 
pointed leaflets. Floral envelope, properly called so, none. 
