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ARALTA NUDICAULIS 



English Name— SMALL SPIKENARD. 



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French Name — Petit Nard. , 

 German Name — Nardwurzel Aralie. 

 Officinal Names — Aralia radix, Nardus Ameri- 



canus. 



Vulgar Names — Spiknard, Sassaparil, Sarsaparil- 

 la. Wild Liquorice, Sweet-root. 



Authorities — Linnasus, Wildenow, Michaux, 

 Pursh, Schoepf, Colden, Dispensaries, Bigelow Se- 

 quel. 



Genus Aralia — Calix united or superior five- 

 toothed. Petals five entire. Stamina five epigyne 

 alternate. Pistil united to the calix, five styles and 

 stigmas. Berry crowned hy the calix and styles, 

 five celled, five seeded — Flowers in simple umbels. 



Species A. Nudicaulis — Stem naked, straight, 

 smooth, bearing three umbels without involucrum : 

 leaves radical, biternate ; folioles ovate, acuminate, 



serrulate. 



DESCRIPTION— Root perennial, brown, yellow- 



ish, cylindrical, creeping twisted, sometimes many 

 feet long, thickness of the finger. One stem and one 

 leaf mostly rising together, and less than two feet 

 high. The stem is straight, leafless, cylindric, with 

 tliree small simple naked umbels at the end. Leaf 



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