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flowering time the leaves are but partially developed. Flowering stems 

 without leaves and one-flowered. Flowers white, about i inch broad; 

 the calyx with four (sometimes three or five) caducous, petallike 

 divisions. Petals eight, flat, oblong, longer than the sepals. Stamens 

 eight with slender filaments. Fruit a short-stalked capsule about i 

 inch long, opening at maturity near the summit by a half-circumscissle 

 cleft. 



In moist woods, New York, Ontario and Pennsylvania to Wisconsin, 

 Iowa, Virginia and Tennessee. Flowering in April and May. 



Poppy Family 



Papaveraceae 

 Bloodroot ; Puccoon-root 



Sangninaria canadensis Linnaeus 



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Leaves and stems glabrous, especially when young, from a stout, hori- 

 zontal rootstock, one-half to I inch thick, densely clothed with thick, fibrous 

 roots. Juice of the roots and stems red. Leaves basal on petioles 6 to 14 

 inches long, palmately five to nine-lobed, the lobes repand or cleft at the 

 apex and palmately veined. Flowering scapes, one-flowered, at length 

 overtopped by the mature leaves, but at flowering time longer than the 

 partially unfolded immature leaves. Flowers white or sometimes pinkish, 

 1 to 1 \ inches broad; sepals two, soon falling. Petals eight to sixteen, 

 oblong-spatulate, arranged in two or three rows and soon falling; stamens 

 numerous, yellow. Fruit a narrow, one-celled, two-valved capsule, pointed 

 at both ends, about 1 inch long. 



In rich woods and on shaded banks, Nova Scotia to Manitoba and 

 Nebraska, south to Florida, Alabama and Arkansas. Flowering in April 

 and May. 



