N. ORD.—PAPAVERACE&, 29 
GENUS.—SANGUINARIA DILL, 
SEX. SYST.—POLYANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
SANGUINARIA. 
BLOODROOT. 
SYN.—SANGUINARIA CANADENSIS, L. SANGUINARIA MINOR, DILL. 
COM. NAMES.—BLOODROOT, RED PUCCOON, PUCCOON, TETTERWORT, 
REDROOT, PAUSON, TURMERIC, INDIAN PAINT, (FR.) SANGUIN- 
AIRE, (GER.) BLUTWURZEL. 
TINCTURE OF THE FRESH ROOT OF SANGUINARIA CANADENSIS, L. 
. 
Description.—This low, erect, perennial plant, dots with its creamy white 
flowers our open woods and bottom lands in early spring, the most beautiful 
harbinger of its season. It arises by a naked scape enveloped by its leaf, toa 
height of from 3 to6 inches. oof horizontal, extending from 2 to 4 inches, with 
a diameter of from one-quarter to three-quarters of an inch, slightly branched, 
cylindrical, giving off, especially from the under side, numerous tender rootlets, 
and somewhat annulate by the scars of previous membraneous sheathing scales 
which enveloped the scape and petiole. When fresh it is brownish red externally, 
and, upon breaking or cutting, it shows minute points of bright red juice, which 
rapidly coalesce and cover the entire wounded surface. When dry similar 
red dots appear upon the fracture, the root becomes longitudinally wrinkled, the 
section showing a bark of about one-twelfth the whole’ diameter, a very slight 
-cambium line and a granular white centre. The stem is a simple, smooth, naked 
scape, terminated by a single flower, from one to one and a half inches in dia- 
meter. The /eaf, which does not reach its full expansion until the flower has 
fallen, is palmately seven- to nine-lobed, with an equal number of reddish ribs, from 
which (especially noticeable upon the under surface) extend a perfect network of 
veins; it has a heart-shaped base, and obtuse lobes; the upper surface is light green, 
the under whitish, glaucous. Sepa/s 2, caducous, forming the ephemeral calyx. 
Fetals 8-12, spatulate, not crumpled. The "slamens, generally 24, unequal and 
about one-half the length of the petals, arranged more or less distinctly in two 
rows. Anthers innate, introrse, dehiscent. /o//en grains globular, more or less 
six-sided by compression, of a beautiful golden-yellow color. Ovary 1-celled, 
with 2 parietal placenta. S¥/e short, thick, rounded, Stgma thick, glandularly 
pubescent, 2-grooved. od oblong, sharp-pointed, turgid, opening by two up- 
lifting valves, allowing the escape of the numerous anatropous, sometimes crested 
Seeds, . Embryo minute, situated at the base of the sarcous, s, oily albumen, | 
* a blood, From the color a the juice, 
