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PODOPHYLLUM PELTATUM. 
May Apple. 
PLATE XXII, 
se Podophyllum peltatum or May apple, 
otherwise called Mandrake in this country, in- 
habits low shady situations from New England to 
Georgia. On the Atlantic coast I have never 
met with it farther north than Boston, yet in the 
interior of the country it has a more extensive 
range. From its large creeping roots, it has a 
great tendency to multiply, and is always found 
in beds of greater or less extent. Its flowering 
time is from March to May. 
This plant is one of the Ranunculacee of Jus- 
ieu and Rheades of Linneus ; and is in the first 
order of the Class Polyandria, 
Its generic character consists in a calyx of 
three leaves ; from six to nine petals ; and a one-cel- 
led berry crowned with the stigma. Only one spe- 
