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ted ee ea Pods membranaceons, spreading, pointed with the short, 
rved style, few-seeded. Low, slender, smooth perennials 
with ti trite leaves, which survive the winter, and small white flowers 
compete nay 5 
LC. 6a, ‘lia, Salish. Leaves ternately divided ; eee wedge-obo- 
vate, sharply tdkhol obscurely 3-lobed ; scape 1 flow 
TureeLeaveD Copris. Goldthread. Mouth-root. 
et izontal, creeping ; fibres bright yellow. Leaves ong petioles, very smooth 
and shin leaflets about an inch long. Seape slender at poorest et rigid and wiry, 
phe inches Fine Flowers about two-thirds of an inch in diameter. tuse, white, 
times parish underneath. Petals much shorter seats the sepals, yellow at the 
Obs. This beautiful little evergreen is found in boggy places and in 
damp woods “a Maryland to Greenland. The long bright yellow fibres 
4 = root have caused it to receive the common name of Goldthread. 
urely bitter, without any asteingneys and is used in medicine as 
peak In some aig it is a domestic remedy for the sore mouths 
of children ; whence the oni f : Mouth- root.” “ That eminent naturalist, 
JOHN Extis, in a letter to Linnarvs, dated London, i 25, 1758, 
says: ‘Mr: Conpen, of New York, has sent Dr. Fothergill a new 
m. ed 400 pla 
method oie: she uses the English terms. Her father has a plant 
fter him, Coldenia ; suppose you should call this Coldenella, or any 
other name that might re ae her among your genera.’ Linnaxus, 
however, referred the plant to his genus Helleborus, sil when it was 
subsequently ascertained to be distinct, @ icmadeh: regardless alike of 
gallantr poe pret clke Peeping rg em of Coptis.”—Memoirs of 
am and Marshall, p. 20. * 
6. DELPHIN’IUM, L. Larkspur. 
eek, pore ‘a dolphin ; from a fanciful resemblance in the flower.] 
Sepals pétalold, irregular, the roduced into a spur at base. 
Petals 4, hls Sag e two upper ones with a spur at 
i n the spur of the calyx, sometimes : 
5, mostly 3. *Pollicles many-seeded. Annual or perennial herbs. Leaves — 
petiolate, palmately divided. Flowers in terminal racemes. ao 
Be D. Consol’ida, L. Stem erect, with s sterags. branches ; eaves 
ny-parted, the segments linear ; flowers few, in loose 3; pedi- 
dale onger than the bracts ; petals un nited ; pod solitary, smooth, 
Souper Detparniex. Lark-spur. (Caballero. 
Fr. Pied d’Alouette. Germ. Der Rittersporn. Span. Espuela de 
‘Root annual. Stem about two feet high, and with the follage and nowers somewhat : 
“pubescent. Flowers blue or violet-parple, sometimes the petals are multiplied into double ‘ 
Grail Bele aod waste pao introduced. Native of Burope. FI July. Fr. August. 
