Badiera oblongata Britton

The Flora and Ethnobotany of Cat Island, Bahamas
Willard Sherman Turrell Herbarium (MU)
BOTANICAL
NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN
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Polygala oblongata	Au: (Britt.) Blake
Polygalaceae
Dragum, Strip Me Naked
Shrub with yellowish-green flowers.
Just south of Dumphries, on the west side of the road. Disturbed roadside
tall dry evergreen forest / coppice.
24°35’ 08” N	Longitude 75°38’ 40” W
A limb is boiled and about a cup taken for constipation or to "cascade" =
clean out your system via diarrhea. "Drags everything out of ya, Operates
ya man, that grippe you too."
Laurel R. Richey
00-880 Duplicates 5 Date July 17,2000
Plants Dried Using a Kerosene Heater
Vouchers for Laurel Richey's PhD Dissertation
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