An illustrated flora of the 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 ed2illustratedflo02brit Year: 1913 PAPAVERACEAE. Vol. II. 3. SANGUINARIA [Dill.] L. Sp. PI. 505. 1753. Rootstock horizontal, thick; juice red. Leaves basal, palniately veined and lobed, cor- date or reniform. Scape i-tlovvered (rarely 2). Flower white. Sepals 2, fugacious. Petals 8-16, oblong-spatulate, arranged in 2 or 3 rows. Stamens =0. Stigma gro
An illustrated flora of the 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 ed2illustratedflo02brit Year: 1913 PAPAVERACEAE. Vol. II. 3. SANGUINARIA [Dill.] L. Sp. PI. 505. 1753. Rootstock horizontal, thick; juice red. Leaves basal, palniately veined and lobed, cor- date or reniform. Scape i-tlovvered (rarely 2). Flower white. Sepals 2, fugacious. Petals 8-16, oblong-spatulate, arranged in 2 or 3 rows. Stamens =0. Stigma grooved. Placentae 2. Capsule oblong or fusiform, dehiscent to the base, the valves persistent. Seeds smooth, crested. [Name from the red color of the juice.] A itionotjpic genus of eastern North America. I. Sanguinaria canadensis L. Bloodroot. Puc- coon-root. Tcttcrwort. Fig. 1981. Sanguinaria canadensis L. Sp. PI. 505. 1753. Glabrous, glaucous, especially when young. Root- stock J'-i' thick, several inches long, densely clothed with thick fibrous roots; petioles 6-14' long; leaves 6'-i2' broad, 4-7' long, palmately s-g-lobed, the lobes repand, or cleft at the apex; flowering scape at length overtopped by the leaves; flower I'-i^' broad; petals early deciduous; capsule narrow, i-celled, 2-valved, l' ong. In rich woods, Nova Scotia to Manitoba and Nebraska, south to Florida. .Alabama and .Arkansas. Ascends to J500 ft. in Virginia. Also called red puccoon and red Indian- paint. Turmeric. Redroot. Corn-root. Pauson. Sweet- slumber. White puccoon. Snake-bite. Flower sometimes pinkish. The scape rarely bears 2 or 3 flowers and bracts. . The species consists of several races, differing in the leaf-lobing and in size and form of the capsule. STYLOPHORUM Nutt. Gen. 2 : 1818. y^i3 Herbs, with stout rootstocks, yellow sap, pinnatifid leaves and clustered or solitary flow- ers, the buds nodding. Sepals 2. Petals 4. Stamens ^. Placentae 2-4; style distinct; stigma 2-4-lobed, rad
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