COPTIS TRIFOLIA. 
GOLD-THREAD. 
Mouth-root, 
Germ. Kleinste Christwurz. (Wiild.) 
Cortis trifolia. Lin. Sp. Pl. 784. Am. Acad. v. 2. p. 356. t. 4. f. 18. Mich. Fl. Bo- 
reali-Amer, 1. 325. Pursh, Fl. Am. Sep. ii. 390. Salisb. in Linn. Trans. viii. 
305. Sp. Pl. Willd. ii. 1335. Kalm’s Travels, iii. 379. Big. Med. Bot. 1. p. 
64. Lepech. Iter. 1. 190. Géder. Fl. Dan. t. 566. Pallas, Iter. iii. 34. Big. 
Florula Bost. p. 134. Thach. Disp. 3d. ed. p. 235. Cutler, Amer. Acad. 1: 
457. Dyck. Ed. Disp. 249. 
COPTIS. 
Salisbury. 
Nat. Syst. Juss. Ranunculaceae. 
Nat. Ord. Linn. Multisiliquae. 
Art. Syst. Lin. Classis Polyandria. Ordo Monogynia. 
Calix none. Petals five or six, caducous ; nectaries five or six, cucullate ; capsules 
from five to eight, pedicelled, beaked, many-seeded. 
Coptis trifolia; leaves ternate, scape one-flowered. 
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