DESCRIPTION OP MEDICINAL PLANTS. 
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rootlets; fl. April-May. Collect in fall. Much in demand 
at present. 
Xanthorrhiza apiifolia, L’Her. Shrub Yellowroot. An under- 
shrub with stalked pinnate or bipinnate leaves with cut leaf- 
lets and small dull purple flowers in axillary racemes, of five 
deciduous sepals, five petals much smaller than the sepals, 
5-10 stamens and 5-15 ovaries. The follicles (fruit) are 
small, usually one-sided. Fl. May. The rhizome, collected 
in September. Along mountain streams in the Cumberlands 
and Alleghanies; abundant. 
Cimicifuga racemosa, Nutt. Black Snakeroot. Black Co- 
hosh. Perennial herb with 2-3 ternately divided leaves, 
the leaflets cut-serrate and white flowers in elongated wand- 
like racemes from a thick knotted rootstock ; pistils solitary, 
sometimes 2—3 sessile, forming dehiscent pods in fruit. Fre- 
quent in the hill- lands of Middle Tennessee. Fl. June- 
July. Collect in fall. 
Actaea alba, Bigel. White Baneberry. White Cohosh. 
Perennials with ample 2-3 ternately compound leaves, the 
ovate leaflets sharply cleft and toothed, with a short and 
thick terminal raceme of white flowers; sepals 4-5, decidu- 
ous, petals 4-10, pistil single, fruit a many- seeded white berry. 
Fl. May. Rich woodlands, throughout and abundant. 
Collect the rootstock in fall. 
Actsea spicata, L. var. rubra, Ait. Red Baneberry. Very 
much like the former in all parts, but bearing red berries. 
Flowering and collected like the former, in similar localities. 
MAGNOLIACEyE. (Magnolia Family.) 
Magnolia glauca, L. Sweet Bay. Shrub 4-20 feet high, leaves 
oval to broadly lanceolate, 3-6' long, glaucous beneath ; flower 
globular white, 2' long, very fragrant ; petals broad, cone of 
fruit small, oblong. Madison County, West Tennessee. 
May. The bark. 
Magnolia acuminata, L. Cucumber- tree. Tree, 60-90° high. 
