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Morning-Glory Stories (Quite another use In fact)

quite another use. In fact, jalap is used as a medicine. It grows very luxuriantly at Jalapa, or, as the Mexicans spell it, Xalapa, in Mexico, and that is the way it gets its name of jalap.

In spite of its very disagreeable taste and beneficial effect upon sick people, the jalap is a lovely vine with beautiful deep pink flowers.

If you saw it growing along the eastern slopes of the Mexican mountains you would never suspect it of being a medicine plant, and you might not suspect it of being a convolvulus, since its flowers are flat instead of tubular in form.