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ASARUM CANADENSE. CANADIAN ASARABACA, 
or WiLp GINGER. 
KKK EKER EE EEEK EK EK 
Class and Oxdéw: 
DoprcanpRIA Monoeynia. 
( Nat. Ord.—AnristoLocuiez. ) 
Generic Character. 
Perianthium simplex, superum, coloratum, trilobum. 
Anthere \aterales. Stigma 6-lobum. Capsula 6-locularis. 
Specific Character and Synonyms. 
can dense; foliis gemi atis Or 
escentibus, perianthii 
uminatis velutinis 
v. 1. p.279. Willd. 
. 149. Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 889. Sweet Br. 
3 . 1. t. 95. Spreng. Syst. Veget.v. 2. p. 
Asarum Carolinianum. Walt. Fl. Car. p.143. 
Asarum latifolium. Salish. Prodr. p. 344.000 
i a é 
— gate id 3 - — aos. 
Descr. Root rounded, creeping, between fleshy and 
woody, throwing out long, descending, whitish fibres. 
Stem very short, decumbent, rounded, glabrous, sheathed 
with three or_ four large, brownish, between fleshy and 
membranous, cymbiform scales. From the top of this stem 
Spring two leaves, cordato-reniform, often more decidedly 
reniform than those here figured, rather obtuse at the point, 
the lobes at the base rounded, the sinus very deep, slightly 
pubescent on the upper surface, beneath more downy, 
the margin indistinctly ciliated ; there are three principal 
nerves on each side the midrib springing from the _ 
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