BARBERRY FAMILY 



what the botanists call a pyxis, that is, a round box 

 full of seeds, which when ripe has a lid which turns 

 back and lets them out. 



BLUE COHOSH. PAPPOOSE-ROOT 



Caulophyllum thalictroides 



Caulophyllum, Greek, stem-leaf, the stem seeming to 

 form a stalk for the great leaf. 



A smooth, perennial herb that comes up in early spring 

 a dark purplish color, fading to green. Rich open woods. 

 New Brunswick to Minnesota, south to the Carohnas and 

 Missouri. Common in northern Ohio. April, May. 



Rootstock. — Thick- 

 ened, matted. 



Stem— 'Ertci, smooth, 

 at first purplish, cov- 

 ered with a bloom, one 

 to three feet high, \\\th. 

 two or three sheathing 

 scales at the base, a 

 large, ternately com- 

 pound leaf near the 

 summit and generally 

 a smaller similar one 

 near the base of the 

 inflorescence. 



Leaves. — Large, ter- 

 nately compound, divi- 

 sions long-petioled, the 

 ultimate segments thin, 

 oval, oblong or obovate, 

 three to five-lobed near 

 the apex. 



Flowers. — Borne in a 



Blue Cohosh. Caulophyllum thalidroides loOSe, open, terminal 



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