San Juan Record | 1938-08-04 | Page 15 | May Apples

may apples may apples are among the most attractive flowers of our woods with their waxy white blossoms nodding between the paired umbrella like 1 leaves the round lobed shape at 01 r the leaves has given the plant its ion scientific name came which amsi means foot leal leaf and that in turn ieca ie acl cr has given the name to IV the active principle of the drug ex 4 from the underground root stocks of the may apple used in medicine as an active cathartic the common name of the plant comes come from the small pulpy fruit