7^8 SANGUINARIA. No. 83. 



it 13 in cold infusion. A good stomachic and febrifuge 

 tincture is made with it, calamus, and orange peel. In 

 powder, the dose is from ten to twenty grams, W 

 IS a good vehicle for it, a wine glass being a dose, ^ 

 equivalent of Gentian. 



Quite 



No* 83. SANGUINARIA CANADENSIS. 



Names. Common Bloodroot. Fr. Sanj 

 nada. Vulgar. Red Puccoon, Blood wort- 



son, Turmeric. 



Classif. 

 nogynia L 



Polyandria mo- 



enus Sanguinarxa. Calyx two leaves deciduous. 

 Corolla with seven to fourteen petals. Many stamina. 

 Pistil oblong, stigma sessile bilobed. Capsule one celled, 

 bivalve* seeds anllate. 



Sp- oanguinaria canadensis. L. RadicaL leaves cor- 

 date, sinuate, multilobe, obtuse, scapes uniflore, petals 



oblong, obtuse. 



DESCRIPTION. Root perennial, horizontal, fleshy 

 and thick, knobby, with some fibres, brownish red out- 

 side, pale within, emitting a bright orange juice ; end 

 truncate or obtuse, many buds sending off leaves and 

 scapes. Leaves erect, on long channelled petioles, cor- 

 date or subreniform, very smooth, sinuated into many 

 rounded repand lobes, obtuse as well as the sinusses r 

 color glaucous, almost white beneath, and reticulated by 

 veins. Scapes erect, terete unfolded by the young leaves, 

 one terminal flower. Calyx with two ovate, obtuse, and 

 concave folioles, falling as soon as the corolla ex- 

 pands. Corolla spreading, commonly with eight white 

 petals, oblong obtuse, four alternate internal ones, a lit- 

 tle shorter. Stamens many and short, anthers oblong, 

 +K- 1 ^* Pistil oblong, compressed. No style, stigma 

 tmc^ sessile, nearly bilobe. Capsule oblong, both ends 



Twlli ^"^ ^^^^^^- ^^^^s ™a^yt ^ownd, red, base with 



has onl V ?J' '^^^.^ §^^^^ ^^"^^d f^om its bloody root, 

 nas omy one species known, with several varieties : 



