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14. ZANTHORHIZA, Marshall. 
Sepals 5, regular, lanceolate-ovate, colored, imbricated in the bud, deciduous. 
Petals 5, small, gland-like, 2-lobed, short-stalked. Stamens 5-10: filaments 
short. Ovaries 5-10, l-celled, 2-ovuled. Style subulate, incurved, at length 
dorsal. Follicles sessile, gibbous. Seed solitary, pendulous. — A smooth trailing 
shrub with yellow roots. Leaves pinnate, long-petioled. Leaflets 3-5, ovate and 
lanceolate-ovate, incisely lobed and toothed from near the acute base. Flowers 
small, in slender compound racemes, appearing before (below) the leaves, dark 
purple. 
1. Z. apiifolia, L'Her. — Shady banks, Florida, and along the mountains 
of Georgia and northward. March and April. — Stems 29 - 39 high. 
. 15. HYDRASTIS, L. 
Sepals 3, ovate, membranaceous, colored, imbricated in the bud, caducous. 
Petals none. Stamens numerous: filaments filiform. Ovaries 12-20, fleshy, 
I-celled, 2-ovuled, ripening into 1-2-seeded, capitate, bright crimson berries. 
Style short. Stigma 2-lipped.— Stem erect from a thick, knotted rhizoma, 
simple, 1-flowered, leafy above. Leaves broadly cordate, palmately 5-7 cleft, 
the lobes toothed and serrate ; radical one solitary, long-petioled. Stem-leaves 
2-3, the uppermost sessile under the stalked, greenish-white flower. : 
. 1. H. Canadensis, L.— Rich shaded soil along the mountains of Georgia 
and Carolina, and northward. April and May. — Stem 1° high. Leaves 4!-9/ 
16. ACTZEA, L. Banenerry. 
Sepals 3-5, ovate, colored, imbricated in the bud, caducous. Petals 4-10, 
spatulate, entire. Stamens numerous; the filaments filiform. Ovary solitary, 
1-celled, becoming a many-seeded berry in fruit. Stigma sessile, 2-lobed. Seed 
horizontal. — Perennial herbs. Stems simple, bearing one or two twice or thrice 
ternately compound leaves, and a single oval or oblong raceme of small white 
flowers. 
. _ L A. alba, Bigel. Smooth, or nearly so ; leaves large, 9 - 3-ternate ; leaf- 
lets thin, ovate or cordate-ovate, acutely toothed ; pedicels of the fruit very thick, 
red; berry white. (A. pachypoda, Ell.) — Rocky woods along the mountains of 
South Carolina (Eliott), and northward. May. — Plant 2° high. 
17. CIMICIFUGA, L. Bucmixt. 
Sepals 4-5, ovate or orbieular, colored, imbricated in the bud, caducous. 
Petals 1 - 8, small, stalked, 2-lobed. Stamens very numerous: filaments fili- 
form, elongated. Ovaries 1-8, 1-celled, becoming many-seeded follicles in fruit. — ; 
— Perennial herbs, with large ternately compound leaves, and white flowers in 
elongated slender racemes. i dest Eo 
`% Ovary mostly single: stigma large, depressed: seeds horizontal, sm 
