ADDISONIA 41 
(Plate 21) 
ADOXA MOSCHATELLINA 
Moschatel 
Native of North America, Europe, and Asia 
Family ADOXACEAE MoscHateEy Family 
Adoxa Moschatellina I,. Sp. Pl. 367. 1753. 
A weak, glabrous perennial herb, three i six inches tall, with 
slender stems and scaly rootstock. ‘There are from one to three 
long-petioled, ternately compound, glossy Ont LEAVES: their seg- 
ments ar adly ovate to orbicular, thin, ee or three- 
mucronulate. The two opposite stem-leaves are similar to the 
root-leaves but smaller, less cut, and c comparatively short-petioled, 
and usually borne above the middle of the stem; they are merely 
usually has a two-toothed calyx, a four-lobed corolla, eight stamens, 
and four styles; the lateral flowers usually have a three-toothed 
calyx, a five-lobed corolla, ten stamens, and five styles. The 
calyx-tube is hemispheric and adnate to the ovary. ‘The wheel- 
shaped corollas are almost a quarter of an inch in diameter, the lobes 
elliptic to ovate. The stamens are borne in pairs opposite the 
sinuses of the corolla. The filaments are adnate to the ss at 
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stem is often spirally twisted and the head becomes pendulous. 
The fruit is a small greenish drupe with three to five nutlets. 
One might readily pass this interesting plant in the woods, as 
at a casual glance it somewhat resembles clumps of the wind 
flower, Anemone quinquefolia. Its flowers are said to have a 
musky smell in the evening, or early morning, when moist with dew. 
It is found from Arctic America south to New York, Iowa, and 
Wisconsin, and in the Rocky Mountains to Colorado; also widely 
distributed in Europe and Asia. 
Specimens were collected by Miss Fanny A. Mulford at Arkville, 
Delaware County, New York, in July, 1903, and again in June, 1912. 
On the mountains at Arkville, Adoxa grows luxuriantly in moist 
rich soil along some of the trails or in leaf-mould covering rocks on 
