32 Sanguinaria Canadensis. 
SYNONYMA, ke. 
Saxaursanta. Hort. cliff. 202. Gron. virg. 57. Mill. Dict. n. 1. Giseck. ic. fasc. 1. n. 13. 
S. minor, flore simplici. Dill. elth. 355, t. 252. f. 326, 
Chelidonium majus Canadense acaulon. Corn. Canad. 212. Moris. hist. 2. p, 257. s. 3. t. 11. f. 1. 
Raj. hist. 1887. — 
- Ranunculus Virginiensis albus. Park. theat. 327. Rai. suppl. 314. 
_ @, Sanguinaria major, fore simplici. Dill. elth. 335. t. 252. f. 325. 
y. Sanguinaria major, flore pleno. Dill. elth. 335. t. 252. f. 326. 
Houttuyn Lin. Pfl. Syst. 7. p. 185. 
Canadisches Blutkraut. Willd. (German.) 
__ Habitat in America Septentrionali, — 
Folium radicale tenerrime in sinu fovet, et amplectitur ialeaiaa more : Cima Lunariz 
et est folium unicum cucullatum et ecapus uniflorus e singula gemma radicisbivalvi. Stamina meae 
| yix habuere Mntheras polliniferas; an dioica? Lactescene succo fulvo Chelidonii, Willd. sp. pl. 
“_ p- 1140. 
_ Habitat in nemoribus Cansdae et Floridae. . 
_ Pharm. Sanguinariae Radix et semina. —o * 
Qual. Succus saturate eaneyee pcre corrodens. Flavo tingit; Spirit. Vini colore rubro grato inficit. 
Vis: emetica, purgans. = 
_ Usus: Rad. decoct. tenue Gonorrhoea ; morsura serpentum ; morbi biliosi; ;—Suce. veruccae. icterus, 
rad. puly. SEM copevial, Shoep. Mat. Med. 
DESCRIPTIO UBERIOR. 
Planta pichreins. Radix premorsa, fulva, magna et carnosa, succo fulvo exudans Chelidonii. 
Foliis radicalibus, sub floratione parvulis, subtus glaucis, sanguineo-venosis, circa scapum et florem 
convolutis. Post florationem folia sunt magna, cordata et profunde sinuato-labata, subtus glauca 
et fulvo-venosa. Scapo constanter uniflora. Florum ‘petala alba vel roseo-striata, perquam varians: 
- Rumero et magnitudine ; requente 8. calix evanescens sive caducus. ‘Capsula longa in medio in- 
mare apice et basi attenuata. ‘Semina — et acuminata. 2f. Florens Martio et April. 
poe eo Barton’s Flora Philadelphica, M.S. 
SANGUINARIA CANADENSIS is a plant peculiar to North Ame- 
Tica. _lts gma name, as well as its English and German ap- 
pellations, are expressive of the peculiar reddish, or rather orange- 
more ie whch pads ery pa of it. It is one of the 
