Jalapa (U. S. P.)—Jalap.
Classic texts: King's 1898.
Ipomoea pandurata (L.) G. Mey.
Engl.: man of the earth, wild potato, bigroot morning-glory, man in the ground, manroot, mechameck, wild jalap, wild potato-vine, wild sweet-potato vine.
Bot. syn.: Convolvulus panduratus L.
Classic texts: King's 1898.
Classic texts: W. Barton, 1817 (Vol. 1), 1818 (Vol. II).
Classic texts: The American Eclectic Dispensatory, by John King, 1854.
Classic texts: Rafinesque 1828-1830.
Classic texts: Scudder's Materia Medica, 1898: Cathartics.
Classic texts: Journals: TNEMA 1882-1883.
Classic texts: USDisp 1918.
Classic texts: Sayre 1917.
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