Feb., 1917] The Crowfoot Family in Ohio 113 



cucullate; stamens numerous; carpels 3-7, stipitate, forming 

 follicles in fruit. In damp mossy woods. 



1. Coptis trifolia (L.) Salisb. Gold-thread. Leaf -blades 

 reniform, 1-2 in. broad, 3 leaflets, ovate, prominently veined, 

 rich green, paler beneath. FolHcles on stipes, spreading. 

 Summit, Stark, Portage, Geauge, Defiance. 



Aquilegia (Tourn.) L. Columbine. 

 Erect, perennial herbs, with ternately decompound leaves 

 and conspicuous nodding flowers. Sepals 5, petaloid; petals 5, 

 spurred, spurs projecting backward between the sepals; stamens 

 numerous; carpels 5, separate, forming spreading follicles in 

 fruit. Rocky woods and thickets. 



1. Spurs straight, knobbed at tip. A. canadense. 

 1. Spurs curv^ed inward. A. vulgaris. 



1. Aquilegia canadense L. Wild Columbine. Stem 

 branched, 1-1 H ft. high, glabrous or very slightly pubescent. 

 Basal leaves slender-petioled, leaflets palmately lobed or 

 parted; upper stem leaves nearly sessile. Flowers sohtary, 

 terminating the branches, longer than broad, red with yellow 

 lips, spurs straight, stamens and carpels exserted. Fruit 

 erect, follicles tipped with filamentous style. General. 



2. Aquilegia vulgaris L. European Columbine. Stem 

 stout, erect, pubescent or nearly glabrous, slightly branched. 

 Flower as broad as long; blue, purple, pink or white; stamens 

 and carpels hardly exserted. From Europe; escaped from 

 gardens. Fulton County. 



Aconitum (Tourn.) L. Monkshood. 



Erect or trailing, slender, perennial herbs. Leaves alter- 

 nate, palmately-cleft ; lower ones slender petioled, the upper 

 nearly sessile, 3-5 cleft, substending flower peduncles. Flowers 

 1/^-2 in. broad, conspicuous; the upper two concealed in the 

 hooded sepal, very small, the others when present are minute; 

 stamens numerous; carpels 3-5 distinct, sessile forming folHcles 

 in fruit. 



1. Aconitum noveboracense Gray. New York Monks- 

 hood. Erect plants, llor- t"t. high. Leaves glabrous, thin, 

 2-4 in. long, deeply cleft, Panicles few-flowered; flowers blue, 

 whitish below, hood with a prominent descending beak. Summit 

 and Portage. 



