MAY-APPLE 



it. This blossom is often two inches across, though 

 usually an inch and a half; the green sepals fall as the 

 petals expand; the white rounded petals are usually 

 six, three outside and three within. The stamens are 



Wild Mandrake. Podophyllum pelldtum 



yellow; there is an abundance of pollen but no nectar. 

 The seed-vessel at the centre is large, crowned with a 

 ruflfled stigma, and in time develops into the wild 

 fruit known as the May-Apple eaten by children. 

 Though the May-Apple is edible, the Mandrake root 

 is poisonous, and from it is obtained the drug known in 

 materia medica as podophyllum. 



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