RANUNCULACEAE 513 
7. CIMICIFUGA L. Perennial herbs. Leaf-blades decompound. Flowers 
numerous, in long racemes, white. Sepals 2-5, Rear te: Petals 1-8, clawed, 
notched at the apex. Stamens numerous: filaments nai Carpels few or 
solitary, many-ovuled, becoming dry follicles. S eut Dens natives of 
. North America and Eurasia.—BuGBANES.—Some de are used in medicine. 
Carpels 1 or 2, sessile: der wholly as Po m 2 row 
Filaments about 4 m m. long: follicles 8-10 mm. long: cesis 
chaffy. 1. C. rubifolia. 
Filaments about 8 mm. long: follicles 5-7 mm. long: seeds 
mo 
2. C. racemosa. 
Carpels 3 or 8, stalked :: seeds in 1 row. 3. C. americana 
1. C. rubifolia Kearney. Plant 6-14 dm. tall: terminal leaflets 5—7-lobed, 
10-30 cm. aod follieles glabrous, the beak spre iind —Wooded bluffs along 
Tennessee River, Appalachian "Valley E 
Tenn.—Fall. 
2. C. racemosa (L.) Nutt. Plant ein 
dm. tall: terminal leaflets 3-lobed, 4-16 c 
wide: follicles ms and often acd im 
the beak 
cent, be rved.—(BLACK-COHOSH. 
BLAOK-SNAKEKOOT, Code FAIRY- 
CAND E-TOP STAR- E.) — 
S. TT 
Woods, various provinces rarely Coastal 
Plain, Ga. to Mo., Wisc, S Ont, and W 
Me.—Early sum. 
3. C. americana e Plant 10-20 dm 
tall: terminal leaflets 6-15 cm. wide: fol- 
licles glabrous, the bodies 10-12 mm. lon ng. 
C. cordifolia Pursh.].— (SUMMER-COHOS MOUNTAIN-BUGBANE.) — Woods, 
Blue Ridge and Appalachian MEER Ga. p Tenn. and N. Y.—Late s 
8. ACTAEA L. Perennial herbs. Leaf-blades ternately compound. 
Flowers rather many, in short racemes, white. Sepals 3—5, deciduous. Petals 
4—10, clawed, not notched. Stamens numerous: filamen E filiform. Carpel soli- 
tary, many-ovuled, becoming a baccate follicle—About 6 species, natives of 
the north temperate zone.—Spr.—BANEBERRIES 
Pedicels slender, less than 1 mm. thick: fruits red. 1. A. rubra. 
Pedicels stout, over 1 mm. thick: fruits white. 2. A. alba. 
1. A. rubra (Ait.) Willd. Plant 3-8 dm. tall: terminal leaflets mostly as 
wide as long and deeply 3-lobed, eid to i at the base: follicles de- 
cidedly elongate: seed about mm. 
A. spicata rub — pe 
POISONBERRY AKEBERRY. RED-BANE- 
ERRY.)— Woods, various provinces, rarely 
eget Plain, N. C. to Tenn., Colo., Alb., 
Ont., N. S. 
(L.) Mill. Plant 4—11 dm. tall: 
ecd Tenet ined oS oa wide and 
oiu d ed, roun at the 
bas : Follicles mc pn as thick as long, 
on spreading dr red pedicels: seed about 
4 S-EYES. ECKLACE- 
MEER m edm RRY. WHITEB pur 
Rocky woods, various provinces, N Fla. 
La., B. C., Ont., Ga., and Que 
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