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(seq. 6)
6 or tinged with a very dark red & remain unchanged through the winter running [?] by foot.
The blossoms are whitish tinged with red or blue, & stand single on long hairy fruit stalks, rising from the roots. They are one of the first blossoms that appear in the spring & make a very pretty ap= =pearance.
This plant is very acrid, The leaves chewed in the mouth prove are emetic & cathartic. It grows in open rich wood land — not common. (John Woodbery's woods) — Dr. Whitaker — thinks not & says it is used in diet drinks & is itetic
May 5th Blood root, Sanguinaria, Puccoon — vide Miller Linaus' & Hill's discrip =tion answer very well except that the Spatha wh confists of two leaves (found ye low leaves afterwards) accom=
(seq. 7)
7 accompanies the flower no farther than ye surface of ye ground. The leaf, also accompanies wh is never but one, rises with ye flower in the same spatha & enfolds the flower wh is intirely rolled up in it untill they have both attained their hight wh is 5 or 6 inches the leaf as the disk of ye leaf un= folds the flower appears & is disengaged from it.
The petals are usually 8 — sometimes more patent & stam-erect & anthera, wh seem to be nearly ovate, are errect etc.
It has no stems the leaf is very large, supported on a round pedicle — the leaf is of a round form & deeply indented very regular every third very deep the others
(seq. 8)
8 slight — surface very uneven or wrinkled — Flowers snow white, prity large — bloom very early — A dark yellow juice issues from the stalks with wh the Indians painted them selves — The root Blood red & when wounded bleeds exceedingly — & the juice very deep red like blood — Dr. Whiteker says it is a fine gentle emetic — It has been steeped in Brandy for a bitter.
May 18th Fever Bush — Laurus
Calix — none — Corol — Six & often 8 or 10 leaves — they are erect, hallow, ovate — alternately interior ye apex rather irregular tho^. some seem to be accuminated but in general blunt —
(seq. 9)
9 Stam — 9, often more, filiform filaments shorter yn ye corol — compressed, obtuse & stand in tow rows — three near together — the anthera adhere to ye edge of ye upper part of ye filament one on each side — the cells were open when I examined ye flower & had two small protruberences just at ye apex of each filament above ye anthera. There are two globbose or rather compressed large corpuscles, affixed by very short filaments to the base of inner series of filaments by short filaments & look like stamina — The nectarium wh is 3 coloured accuminated tubercucles, terminating in each is two hairs standing round ye germen. I am not certain about — [Thot?] I found two or 3 small tubercles — & one or tow hairs adhered to ye needle, but was not certain — perhaps ye bloom had been open too long for ye anthera seemed to be drying up —
(seq. 10)
10 Germ. Nearly oval — ye stile is simple seems to be rather shorter yn ye stam. ye stigma obtuse & oblique. —
The fruit I have seen & think ye berry has but one seed — but am not certain —Eng. Dr. Fisher
Seed — A dark red berry like yn a current when dry — ovate. has a leathery shell — not very thick — easily cut The nut large, white, very aromatic.
Bush — five or 6 feet high — Bark very dark brown
Leaves
The blossoms fall before the leaves appear — The flower bud hhas three small concave leaves like a calix & 3 inner ones coloured look like corrol. Three or 4 flowers rise from this spatha on pedicles — The flowers are very small of a dull