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The root is the part used in medicine, it is knotty, contorted, and annulated, and of a grayish-brown color, and its emetic properties are due to a chemical principle called _emetin_.
Catalogue of Economic Plants in the Collection of the U. S. Department of Agriculture William Saunders 1861
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