42 WEEDS AND USEFUL PLANTS. 
4. SANGUINA’RIA, L. Brooproor. 
[Latin, Sanguis, blood ; in reference to the red color of its juice.} 
Sepals 2. Petals 8-12, spatulate oblong, the inner narrower. Stigmas 
2-grooved, subsessile. Capsule oblong, ventricose, tapering at each end, 
2-valved. Seeds strongly crested. ong nial herbs with thick rootstocks 
taining an orange-r a acrid juice ; flowers on scapes. 
1 S. Canaden’sis, Z. Leaf mostly solitary, cotdate reniform, long |. 
petioled ; flowers white, solitary on naked scapes. 
Canapian Saneurnarta. Bloodroot. Puccoon. 
Rootstock thickish, fleshy, reddish-brown, about 2 inches long. Leaf about three 
inches agen § and wider than long ; petiole erect, finally 6-10 inches in length. Scape 4-8 
Rich 
woods ; common. April-May. 
Obs. ‘one of our earliest d most beautiful springy Howert, 
The flower, which is large for the size of the plant, is srr ft peace 
b te leaf which conrstoyen, f t before ex mpeneion: 
increase in size, and rae are in ‘eppears 
ra ‘they but ~~ sree their ‘ea early sta oes we’ all in 
cultivation. An orange-colored juice is found t in vail pats ot the lant, 
but thoes alundait’ in the rootstock, thee under the of Blood. 
is used in medicine ; it is an emet , and is a coughs, 
ke. in large doses it is poisonous. fi some parts of the dof the 
leaves are given to horses to hy mote the shedding of their hair ‘and 
the Toots: are given to destroy bots 
Orper VI. CRUCIF’ERAE. (Mousrarp Famity.) 
Herbs with a ors watery juice, leaves alternate without stipules, and 
cemes or corymbs ; the pedicels without bracts. Calyz of 4 sepals, deciduous. Corolla 
i i mens 6, 2 of them 
shorter ialgnamnay Fruit a pod (called a pena He when much longer than broad, 
and a Si n short), which is 2-celled by a membranaceous partition that connects the 
inal rom which the two suall, is wi 
in ra- 
; i eur 
vi back of one 5 
This order isa ieee fe renee or See ka one, as well i in bg sensi’ 
ties as in otanica the plants ging to a aor we enter 
posemnbie one another ee ‘the ages! UF nore characters for genera are taken 
from the pods and seeds. There few i ee pra fos es, however, besides - 
here noticed. The Woad, ‘oad, or Dyer’s wi eed (Isatis tin ia, L.) is cult rtd fo in Europe for 
ol — coloring matter, but I believe it is little alan or atten ded to in the United 
v7 a Pod st oa into two valyes whe 
Pod us a aoe. a Bos, than wine ‘(silique.) 
oblong. : 
aun pir prefs -linear to ovoid, nearly terete: valves: 
ryeless. Flowers white or yellow. 1. Nasrormom. 
=. Pod obtusely 4-angled ; valves I-nerved. Flower yellow. 2. Reema. 
ae a Pod antshaped, pressed close to the sem. ath aiabecer ~ : 
