No. 51. HYDRASTIS. g5l 



No. 51. 



HYDRASTIS CANADENSIS 



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English Name— YELLOW PUCOOX 



FfiENCH Name — Hydraste bu Canada. 



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Gekjman Name — Gelb Puckuhn. 

 Officinal Name — Hj'drastis radix. ■ 



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Vulgar Names — Yellowrootj Ground Raspberry* 

 Yellowpalnt, Golden Seal, Orange root, Indian paint, 



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Eyebalm, &c. 



SrxoNY3is — TVary^era CanadenstsMXW^v — Hydro- 



phylluvi vtt'Um Linn* Hydrastis Ellis* 



AuTHOKiTiES — Linn. i\Iich. Pursh, Miller, EJJiot, 



Eaton, Torrey, Stokes, Coxe, B. Barton, W. Barton, 

 fig. 26; bad- 



Genus Hydrastis — Perigone simple, petaloid, 



tijree leaved, caducous. Stamina many, unequal, 

 linear. Pistils many forming an ovate bead, Styles 

 very short, stigmas compressed. Fruit a compour.d 

 berry, formed by acines or fleshy seeds. * 



Species //. Canadensis — Stem two leaved, uniflore: 

 leaves unequal, alterne, lower petiolate, upper sessile, 

 palmate, cordate, three to seven lobed, lobes acute, 

 unequally serrate ; flower terminal on a short pedun- 

 cle» 



DESCRIPnOX— Root perennial, of a bright ye!- 

 low, tortuose, knobby, wrinkled, wnth iffany long 

 fibres. Stem a foot high or less, simple, straight, 



