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proiiosed the name Xanthorrhiza tinctoria,* but the art/cle not appearing in 

 ;i botanical work, writers on plants have mostly overlooked it and few have 

 used the name, even as a synonym. 



In most botanical and medical works- L'Herticr is credited with naming 

 tlic plant, and his name and spelling Zanthorhiza apiifolia has been generally 

 lised; 



Okt 



authors, 

 rhi/.a, /a 



fi<.ivAi'ii\.— The generic name of the plant has-beri 

 /miiUiiivIi iza IS the usual manner, but we lind on 



-nters 



r.elled ill a variety of ways Ijy botaiiicil 

 arch the lol[.i.wiii!^r s|)ellings ; Zanlh(j- 

 a, /anthorrhiza, /anthornza, \nnthorhiza and Xanthorrhiza. Marsliall sjielled it 

 11,1 Ie^4iej;^/antht,rhiza. the correct spelling, as now accepted by Watson, an<l to 

 wluc.i atlcnlion was specially, drawn bv W. H. I.eggett, m 1K70, is Xanthorrhiza 



As faf as we can Imd, bprengel is the only botanist who has spelled it correellv ; mosi 

 .follow 1, Hertier, and make the two-fold error of beginning with an iniii al - 



Bor.\.MC.\I, Al'KI.NTnKS.— I he genu.s Xaiithorihiza consists of only the one species described in 

 this article aiul is conhned to the .Southern Allegheny range. In botanical aflinilies it stands between 

 Jlh^two orders Kanunculacjea; and herberulaceac, and while bv all systematists it has always been 

 included in the former, oiir belief is that it belongs to the lierberidace^x- and wilUinally be idaced 

 there. \\ c would not, however, assume to make thn ' ' 

 however stiom; our convictions may be- 

 lli general aspect the plant resembles some ever' 

 J noticed at on^e, and the yello' 

 ith those oft^erberis. ... No olh 



jubling the 



11 k contrary to all aujjiorities, 



^ith the-( 



but 

 identical 

 CI 

 ihe 



Xan 

 nite SI an 

 these St; 

 because 

 case alte 

 Ijcrberidai 



t lie>»*culiar glandular petals of Xanth< 

 almost identical in size and apjiearance 

 C)ther poiiiis might be shown to prove, 

 cla8se<l. 



of I'k 



color of the 



■4 



nstuueni ot the bi 

 hiz./ agrees with Berl 

 I he piiln ipal leisol 

 > (and other pans ol 

 are alternate with the petals, 

 ones are oppo/ite the petals, 



nil, 



er in all other particu 

 bciidiici I Uibciini 

 ndacca: and difiers Ir 

 why benthani and I li 

 the (lower) are live, 

 IJaillon has s 

 position rare 



hi I Ins I 

 III such (p 

 Jill all other I 

 .ok, , 1. fc, ,t I 

 nstead ol tlire 

 howii that thi 

 anujiig plants 



I, il L,,n 

 ;ej)ting 



dm , 



,/// stem 



titv. 



iXlThTce- 

 lal ter ' 



having deii- 

 r 10 be tlj^r. 



a muUipIe of^hrcc; also 

 re olten ten and m this- 

 rally, but common m tPffe 



not found in other .kanunciilace2f^lnit are 

 I genus of the lierbendaeejj;; 



angly 



ft' 



.vllable l.iiiilli.y ,iiid,|i 



' ^ ^ r 



a prcter lUc .X. hu 



