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Sanguinaria Canadensis. Canada 



PUCCOON, orBLOODWORT. 



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C/#/} and Order. 



POLYANDRIA MoNOGYNIA. 



Generic Character. 

 Cor. 8-petala. Cal. 2-phyllus. Siliqua ovata, l-locularis. 



Specific Characler and Synonyms. 

 SANGUINARIA Canadenfis. Linn. Syft. Vcg. ed. 14. Murr. 



p. 489. 

 CHELIDONIUM majus Canadenfe acaulon. Corn. Canad. 



212. 

 RANUNCULUS Virginienfis albus. Park. Meat. 226. 

 SANGUINARIA flore fimplici. Dill. Elth. t. 252. 



Though the Sanguinaria cannot be confidered as a handfome 

 ft ewy plant, yet we fcarcely know its equal in point of deli- 

 cacy and Angularity ; there is fomething in it to admire, from 

 the time thai its leaves emerge from the ground, and embofom 

 the infant blofTom, to their full expanfion, and the ripening 

 of its feed veffels. 



The woods of Canada, as well as of other parts of North- 

 America, produce this plant in abundance ; with us it flowers 

 in the beginning of April : its bloffoms are fugacious, and 

 fully expand only in fine warm weather. It is a hardy 

 perennial, and is ufually propagated by parting its roots in 

 autumn ; a fituation moderately fhady, and a foil having a 

 mixture of bog-earth or rotten leaves in it fuits it beft. 



Its knobby roots, when broken afunder, pour forth a juice 

 of a bright red or orange colour, whence its name of Sangui- 

 naria ; with this liquid the Indians are faid to paint themfelves. 



Dilo-enius has figured it in his admirable work, the Hortus 

 Elthamenfis, where three varieties of it are reprefented, viz» 

 a large one, a fmall one, and one in which the petals are mul- 

 tiplied, but which can fcarcely be called double. 



It appears from Morison *, that the Sanguinaria was cul- 

 tivated in this country in 1680, the date of his work. 



At 

 * Provenit fponte in America occidentali five in Virginia feu Canada, un 



femen ad nos delata, quibus propagata ejus foboles abundanter fatis in ^°j!., u 



fuburbano Gul. Walker non longe a palatio Divi jacobi, fito in vico ejuiae 



nominis Jacobeo di&o. 



