RANUNCULACEAE 511 
S with a wide border: flowers perfect. 22. VITICELLA. 
Stamens pum sepals more or less converging. 23. VIORNA. 
Petals present (in our species), smaller than the sepals. 24. ATRAGENE. 
1. XANTHORRHIZA L’Her. Weak shrubs. Leaf-blades 1—2-pinnate. 
Flowers ae Sepals 5, brownish-purple, deciduous. Petals 5, gland- 
ike. mens 5 or 10: filaments stout. 
Carpels oe sessile, 2-ovuled, in fruit form- 
ing a whorl of follicles—One species. 
1. X. id ms Marsh. Eb t 2-6 dm. 
tall, diffuse: leaves approximate: leaflets 
mo stly 5, us blades ovate Pa elliptic, 2.5- 
.5 em. long, incised-toothed or divided: 
sepals M to ovate -lanceolate, brownish- 
OW-RO B HER. ) 
Woods, a banks, od ledges, various 
provinees, M Fla. and N. Y.— 
Spr.—The roots B du D. yellow. 
2. HYDRASTIS Ellis. Perennial herbs. Leaf-blades palmately lobed. 
Flowers solitary. Sepals 3, fugacious. Petals wanting. Filaments slender, 
white. Carpels several, 2-ovuled, in fruit 
forming a head of berries.—T'wo species, the 
following and one in Japan. 
l. H. canadensis Plant pubescent, 
mostly 2—4 dm. cu blade of the cauline 
leaf becoming 8-24 em. wide: bract leaf- 
like, flower white: ais ovate: frait- head 
4—16 m j 
ROOT. INDIAN-DYE. )—Ri eh woods and shaded 
banks, cis provinces N of Coastal Plain, 
and Vt.—Spr.—The 
to Kan Minn., 
rootstock j is usad i in ne ine 
9. CALTHA [Rupp.] L. - Perennial herbs. Leaf-blades entire or toothed. 
Flowers owe or solitary. Sepals few, yellow, pink, or white, deciduous. Petals 
ormin 
ter of leathery green follieles.—About 15 
species, widely distributed 
C. palustris L. piace glabrous, 2-6 dm 
a ‘bla des of the cauline leaves similar to 
those of the bas - bur cw reniform fo 
orbicular-renifor 9 wide: sepals 
Ses. oblong fe oval- ons dios 1.5-2 cm. 
long: follicles 10-12 mm. lon aoe ic s 
MARIGOLD. COWSLIP. BULL’S KIN 
UP. )— wamps and low meadows, often eal- 
eareous, va S provinees, S only in Blue 
careous, wae provinces, S. C. to Sask., Ont., 
and Newf.— (Eur sia.) —S 
