LEAVES AND HERBS. 
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in France, Germany and Hungary. The leaves and 
tops are collected when the plant is in flower, and 
are carefully dried and preserved, the chief of the com- 
mercial supply being obtained from cultivated plants. 
Description. — Usually in irregular matted frag- 
ments. Stem cylindrical, flattened, longitudinally 
furrowed and wrinkled, 2 to 5 mm. in diameter; inter- 
nodes 15 to 2 cm. long. Leaves ovate, 6 to 20 cm. 
long, 2 to 12 cm. broad ; apex acuminate; base unequal, 
one side extending 3 to 12 mm. below the other; mar- 
gin irregularly sinuate-lobed, the lobes acute; upper 
surface dark green, nearly glabrous, under surface 
yellowish green, glabrous, slightly pubescent on the 
veins, midrib dark brown, veins of the first order diverg- 
ing from it at an angle of 45° to 65°, dividing near the 
margin and the main branch passing into the lobes ; 
petiole dark brown, 0 - 5 to 4 - 5 cm. long, circular in 
cross section; texture fragile. Flowers solitary, pedicel 
2 to 10 mm. long, calyx five-toothed, about 4 cm. long, 
separating transversely near the base at maturity, the 
upper part falling away ; corolla funnel-shaped, yellow- 
ish or purplish white, about 8 cm. long, limb plaited, 
five-lobed; stamens five, included, inserted near the 
middle of the corolla tube; stigma slightly two-lobed. 
The immature fruit somewhat conical, four-valved. 
Seeds numerous. Odor disagreeable. Taste unpleasant, 
nauseous. 
Constituents. — The important constituents of Stra- 
monium leaves are similar to those of belladonna 
leaves, the amount of total alkaloids, however, being 
about one-half less. 
EUPATORIUM (Boneset). 
The leaves and flowering tops of Eupatorium perfoli- 
atum (Fam. Compositse), a perennial herb indigenous 
