An investigation of the properties of the Sanguinaria canadensis, or puccoon / by William Downey.

  • Downey, William.
Date:
[1803]
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Credit: An investigation of the properties of the Sanguinaria canadensis, or puccoon / by William Downey. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    BOTANICAL ARRANGEMENT. T HE genus Sanguinaria belongs to Linnseus's twenty-seventh natural order, Rhoe- de^e. In his sexual system he places it in the class polyandria and order monogynia. The characters which he gives of the fructification are as follows : * Cal. Petals eight,t oblong, obtuse, most ex- panding ; the alternate ones interior, nar- rower. St am. Filaments very numerous, simple, shorter than the coral. Anthers simple. Pist. Germ oblong, compressed. Style none. Stigma thickish, two furrowed with a stria the heighth of the stamens, permanent. Per. Capsule oblong, bellied, acute at both ends, two valved, seeds very numerous, round and pointed. * Translation by the Litchfield society, \ From eight to fourteen.