. 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. Botany. CROWFOOT FAMILY. I. Hydrastis canadensis L. Golden Seal. Fig. 1852. Hydrastis canadensis L. Syst. Ed. 10, 1088. 1759. Perennial from a thick yellow rootstock, about 1° high. Basal leaf long-petioled, $'-8' broad, palmately 5-9-lobed, the lobes broad, acute, sharply and unequally serrate; cauline leaves 2, borne at the summit of the stem, the upper one su
. 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. Botany. CROWFOOT FAMILY. I. Hydrastis canadensis L. Golden Seal. Fig. 1852. Hydrastis canadensis L. Syst. Ed. 10, 1088. 1759. Perennial from a thick yellow rootstock, about 1° high. Basal leaf long-petioled, $'-8' broad, palmately 5-9-lobed, the lobes broad, acute, sharply and unequally serrate; cauline leaves 2, borne at the summit of the stem, the upper one subtending the greenish-white flower, which is 4"-$" broad when expanded; filaments widened, about 2" long; anthers oblong, obtuse; head of fruit ovoid, blunt, about 8" long, the fleshy car- pels tipped with a short cur\'ed beak. In woods, Connecticut to Minnesota, western On- tario, Georgia. Missouri and Kansas, .\scends to 2500 ft. in Virginia. April. Called also yellow puccoon, yellow-root, turmeric-root, yellow Indian paint. Indian-dye, -iceroot or -turmeric. Ohio cucuma. Eye-balm or -root. Yellow eye. Ground- 2. CALTHA [Rupp.] L. Sp. PI. 558. 1753. Succulent herbs, with simple entire or crenate mostly basal cordate or auriculate leaves Flowers yellow, white or pink. Sepals large, deciduous, petal-like. Petals none. Stamens numerous, obovoid. Carpels numerous or few, sessile, bearing ovules in 2 rows along the ventral suture, in fruit forming follicles; stigmas nearly sessile. [Latin name of the Marigold.] A genus of beautiful marsh plants, comprising about 15 species, distributed through the tem- perate and arctic regions of both hemispheres. In addition to those here described four or five others are found on the western of the continent. Type species: Caltha paluslris L. Stems erect or ascending ; flowers yellow. Leaves cordate, generally with a narrow sinus ; flowers M'-i 'A' wide. i C. paluslris Leaves flabelliform a broad sinu
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