An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions : from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102nd meridian; 2nd ed. . 9 deep; scape naked, l-flowered; flowerswhite, about l broad; petals oblong, stigma peltate; capsuleabout i long, short-stipitate. In woods, eastern Pennsylvania, New York and Ontario to Wis-consin, Iowa, Virginia and Tennessee. Ascends to 2500 ft. in Vir-ginia. May. Ground-squirrel pea. Helmet-pod. Rheumatism-root. 6. PODOPHYLLUM L. Sp. PI. 505. 1753. Erect perciniia
An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions : from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102nd meridian; 2nd ed. . 9 deep; scape naked, l-flowered; flowerswhite, about l broad; petals oblong, stigma peltate; capsuleabout i long, short-stipitate. In woods, eastern Pennsylvania, New York and Ontario to Wis-consin, Iowa, Virginia and Tennessee. Ascends to 2500 ft. in Vir-ginia. May. Ground-squirrel pea. Helmet-pod. Rheumatism-root. 6. PODOPHYLLUM L. Sp. PI. 505. 1753. Erect perciniial herlis, uith hurizcjnlal poisonous roolstocks, large peltate palmatclylobed leaves, and solitary white flowers. Sepals 6, petaloid, fugacious, the bud with 3fugacious bractlets. Petals 6-9, flat, obovate, longer tlian the sepals. Stamens as many ortwice as many as the petals; anthers linear, longitudinally dehiscent. Pistil i (rarely sev-eral) ; ovary ovoid, many-ovuled, forming a large fleshy berry in fruit. Seeds numerous,obovate, enclosed in fleshy arils. [Greek, Anapodophyllum, duck-foot-lcaf.] .?\ genus of about 4 species, the following typical one native of eastern North .\merica andJapan, the others Asiatic. 9. 130 BERBERIDACEAE. Vol. II. I. Podophyllum peltatum L. May Alandiake. Fig. 1961. Podophyllum peltatum L. Sp. PI. 505. 1753. Erect, l°-i*° high. Basal leaves centrally pel-tate, nearly 1° in diameter, long-petioled, deeply5-g-lobed, glabrous, or pubescent and light greenon the lower surface, darker above; lobes 2-cleftand dentate at the apex; flowering stems appear-ing from different rootstocks, bearing 1-3 similarleaves, or occasionally leafless; flower white,stout-peduncled, nodding, 2 broad, appearingfrom the base of the upper leaf and generallyfrom immediately between the two leaves; sta-mens twice as many as the petals; fruit ovoid,yellowish, 2 long, edible. In low woods, western Quebec and throughoutsouthern Ontario to Minnesota, Kansas, Flori
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