. 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 102d meridian. Botany; Botany. Genus 2. GINSENG 2. Panax trifolium L. Dwarf Ginseng or Ground- nut. Fig. 3094. Panax trifolium L. Sp. PI. 1059. 1753. Ginseng trifolium Wood, Bot. & Flor. 142. 1873. Glabrous, s'-S' high. Root globose, deep, about ¥ in diam- eter, pungent to the taste; petioles ¥-2' long; leaflets 3-5, oval to oblanceolate, sessile, obtuse, usually narrowed at 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 102d meridian. Botany; Botany. Genus 2. GINSENG 2. Panax trifolium L. Dwarf Ginseng or Ground- nut. Fig. 3094. Panax trifolium L. Sp. PI. 1059. 1753. Ginseng trifolium Wood, Bot. & Flor. 142. 1873. Glabrous, s'-S' high. Root globose, deep, about ¥ in diam- eter, pungent to the taste; petioles ¥-2' long; leaflets 3-5, oval to oblanceolate, sessile, obtuse, usually narrowed at the base, I'-ii' long, 3"-8" wide, dentate or serrate; peduncles l'-24' long; pedicels i"-ii" long in fruit; flowers white, often {^ monoecious, about i" broad; styles usually 3; fruit mostly 3-angIed (or when with 2 styles, didymous), yellow, about 2" broad. In moist woods and thickets, Nova Scotia to Georgia, west to Ontario, Wisconsin and Iowa. April-June. 3. ECHINOPANAX Decne. & PI. Rev. Hort. IV. 3: 105- 1854- [RiciNOPHYLLUM Pall.; Ledeb. FI. Ross. 2: 375. Hyponyra. 1844.] A densely prickly shrub, with palmately lobed leaves and racemed or panicled umbels of small greenish-white flowers. Calyx-teeth obsolete; petals S, valvate; stamens 5; filaments filiform; anthers oblong or ovate; ovary 2-3-celled; styles 2; stigma terminal. Fruit laterally compressed, of 2 carpels. [Greek, prickly Panax.] A monotypic genus of northwestern North America and northeastern Asia. I. Echinopanax horridum (J. E. Smith) Decne. & Planch. Devil's Club. Fig. 3095. Panax horridum J. E. Smith, in Rees' Cyclop. 26: no. 10. 1819. E, horridum Decne. & Planch.; Cooper, Pac. R. R. Rep. 12 : 31. i860. Oplopanax horridum Miq. Ann. Mus. Bot. Lugd. Bat. i : 116. 1863. Fatsia horrida B. & H.; S. Wats. Bot. Cal. i: 273. 1876. Stems erect from a decumbent base, up to 13° high, densely prickljr, leafy above; leaves nearly orbicular m outline, 6-2° broad, cordate at
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