ASARUM CANADENSE. 
Frurr. Capsule or berry, three —six-celled, many-seeded. 
Embryo minute, in the base of fleshy albumen. 
Sreps. Numerous. 
Tue Seconpary CHARACTERS. 
Asarum. Calyx campanulate. Stamens twelve, placed 
upon the ovary. Anthers adnate to the middle of the fila- 
ments. Style. very short. Stigma six-rayed, Capsule six- 
celled, crowned with the calyx. 
Calyz somewhat bell-form, three or four-cleft, superior. Corolla wanting. An- 
thers proceeding from the middle of the filaments. Stigma six-cleft. Capsule cori- 
aceous, six-celled, crowned with the calyx. 
Tue Speciric Cuaracters. 
Asarum Canapense. Leaves two, broad, reniform. Calyx 
woolly, deeply three-cleft, the segments reflected. 
Calyx woolly, deeply three-parted, divisions sub-lanceolate, reflected. Leaves 
broad, kidney-form, in pairs. 
Tue ArtiricraL CHARACTERS. 
Cuiass Gynanpria or Dopecanpria. Stamens and style 
consolidated. Orpen Dercanpria, Exogens. Herbs or 
shrubs. Flowers greenish. Stamens six to twelve. Sligmas 
radiate. 
NATURAL HISTORY. 
Canapa Snaxeroor, or Wild Ginger, is an indigenous 
small and acaulescent plant, inhabiting woods and shady 
places from Canada to Carolina and Missouri. It is most 
abundant in hills, valleys, and rich alluvions. It flowers from 
the last of April to the beginning of June, and is of easy 
propagation and culture. 
_ The species of Asanum under consideration very closely 
resembles the Asarum Europeum, in appearance and botani- 
eal character. It has a long, creeping, jointed, fleshy, yellow- 
ish root or rhizoma, furnished with radicles of a similar color. 
The stem is very short, dividing, before it emerges from the 
ground, into two long, round, hairy leaf-stalks, each of which 
bears a broad, kidney-shaped leaf, pubescent on both surfaces, 
of a rich, shining light-green above, veined and pale or bluish 
Ne ne: th. A single flower stands in the fork of the stem, upon 
2 hairy pendulous peduncle. ‘The flower is often concealed 
by the loose soil, or decayed vegetable matter, so that the 
