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 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
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 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- raspberry. 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 Leav
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