MATERIA MEDICA BOTANICA. 
BERBERIDACE®, 
Berberids. 
No. 49. 
PODOPHYLLUM PELTATUM. 
May Appie. Mandrake, Wild Lemon, Duck’ s-foot, &c. 
Geog. Position. United States. 
Quality. Insipid. 
Power. Cathartic, narcotic. 
Use. Bilious and intermittent fevers. 
BOTANICAL ANALYSIS. 
Natural Classification. 
Orver BERBERIDACEA. 
Linnean Classification. 
Crass XIII. Polyandria. Orver Monogynia. 
Avrnorities.—Lin. Sp. Pl. 722. Willd. Sp. Pl. IL. 1141. Parsh. Flor. N. A. 
I. 366. Lind. Flor. Med. 13. Bigelow, Med. 23. Barton, Veg. Mat. Med. 
TI. 25. Raf. Med. Flor. II. 59. U.S. Disp. 576. Ec. Disp. U.S. 312. Loud. 
Encyc. Pl. 460. Ballard and Garrod, Mat. Med. 193. Pereira, Mat. Med. IT. 760. 
Griff. Med. Bot. 115. Carson, Illust. Med. Bot. I. 18. Gray, Bot. Text-Book, 
711. Beach, Fam Phys. 666. Howard, Bot. Med. II. 280. Mat. Med. 158. 
Henry, Med. Herb. 188. Wood, Class-Book, 152. 
Genus PODOPHYLLUM. 
From the Greek zrovis, foot, and gu'iior, leaf, in allusion to the long, firm petioles 
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on which the leaves are placed, resembling the webbed feet of aquatic birds. 
Synonymes.—Podophylle de peltate (Fr.), Schildblattriger Entenfuss (Ger.), 
Entenruss, Fluss blatt (Dutch). 
Tue Essentian Cyaracters. — 
Caiyx. Sepals three —four~six, imbricate in two rows, often 
reinforced by petaloid scales. ae 
Corotia. Hypogynous. Petals one to three times as many 
as the sepals, and opposite to them. ne Ore 
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