. The drug plants of Illinois . GILLENIA STIPULATA (Muhl.) Trel. American ipecac, Indian physic. Rosaceae.—An erect, branching, pubes- cent herb 2 to 4 feet tall, perennial; leaves compound, nearly sessile, with large, leaf- like stipules; leaflets 3 in number, ovate, acuminate, 1/^ to 1 inch long, sharply in- cised-serrate; flowers white or pinkish, about y^, inch wide, solitary at the ends of slender, flexuous stalks arising from upper- most leaf axils; fruit a cluster of 5 2- to 4-seeded pods lightly adhering within the calyx. The root collected. Infrequent or lo- cally abundant in dry wood
. The drug plants of Illinois . GILLENIA STIPULATA (Muhl.) Trel. American ipecac, Indian physic. Rosaceae.—An erect, branching, pubes- cent herb 2 to 4 feet tall, perennial; leaves compound, nearly sessile, with large, leaf- like stipules; leaflets 3 in number, ovate, acuminate, 1/^ to 1 inch long, sharply in- cised-serrate; flowers white or pinkish, about y^, inch wide, solitary at the ends of slender, flexuous stalks arising from upper- most leaf axils; fruit a cluster of 5 2- to 4-seeded pods lightly adhering within the calyx. The root collected. Infrequent or lo- cally abundant in dry woods southward from Macon and Clark counties; rare northward to La Salle County. Contains the bitter principle gillenin, gum, resin, and tannin. Used as an emetic and stomach tonic.
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