Xanthornus (zanthornus)

[NL. (P. S. Pallas, 1769; Scopoli, 1777; generally misered ited to Cuvier), prop. * Xanthornis, genus. called Pendu lin us. troopial. folia, is a native of the United States, growing on shaded mountain-banks from Pennsylvania and western New York to Kentucky and southward. It is a dwarf shrub with its stem yellowish within, bearing pinnately decompound leaves and pendulous compound racemes of brownish-purple flowers with petaloid sepals and small glandlike petals. Its yellow rootstock secures it the name of shrub- yellow root (which see); this and the bark are intensely bitter, and afford a simple tonic of minor importance. Xanthorrhœa (zan-thō-reä), n. [NL. (Smith, 1798), so called from the red resin of some species; IMG:content-2629.png:[blocks in formation]