i9d FBASERA. No. 39 



No 39. 



FRASERA TERTICILLATA. 



ENGLISH Na3ije— AMERICAN COLOMBa 



Fke^s^ch Name — Fhasere Colombo. 



German Name — Colombo Wuhzel. 



Officinal Nam^e — Colombo. Frasera radix. 



YxjLciAR Names — Colombo-root, Columbia, In- 

 dian Lettuce, Yellow GentiaD, Golden Seal, Curcuma> 

 Meadow Pride, Pyramid, &c- ^ 



Syno-^yms — Siaeriia difformis Lin. Sw. frasera 

 Smith in Rees* Cyb. Frasera caYoUnensis Walter. 

 Fr* officinalis B. Bart. Fr. Walteri Mich. &c. 



AtJTHOHiTiEs — Walter, Bartram, Michaux, Pursh, 

 Persoon, Nuttall, Torrej, Schoepf, 'EA\ioi\y Drake, 

 Bigelow Sequel, Thatcher, Coxe, A, Ives, Hildreth, 



Zollickofier, many Dispens. B. Barton, W. Barton^ 



fig. 35 bad» 



Genus FRASERA-^Calix persistent, four parted^ 

 Corolla spreading, rotate, four parted, segments ellip- 

 tic, each having m the middle a large bearded gland. 

 Stamina four short, alterne with the segments. One 

 pistil, germen oval compressed, one style, two stig- 

 mas, Capsvsi oval flat, one celled, two valved, several 

 winged imbricate seeds inserted on the valves. 



Species Fr, verticiilata — Very smooth, leaves ses- 

 sile, entire, radical leaves procumbent, elliptic, obtuse -y. 



stem leaves vesticillate by five to seven^ oblong oc 



