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involucre o, or of 1-3 leaves, petals yellow with a red 

 border, stem round ; rare ; Switzerland (St. Gallen), Tirol. 

 B. Leaves ter-pinnate or decompound; flowers white: — 

 L. Siler, L. ; leaves ter-pinnate, with lanceolate entire 

 segments, glabrous, fruit linear; Switzerland, Jura, 

 Dauphiny, Pyrenees. L. latifoliuvi, L. ; leaf-segments 

 large, ovate, cordate at the base, glabrous or rough 

 beneath, stem terete; stony hills. L. hirsutuvi^ L. {L. 

 Panax, Gou.); resembling the last, but leaflets small, 

 ovate, with linear segments ; dry, high ; Switzerland, 

 Carniola, Dauphiny. L. Chironium, Scop. ; bracts of 

 general involucre with white margin, stem angular, 

 furrowed, leaf- sheaths inflated; Carniola, rare. L. 

 Nestleriy Soy. {aquilegicefolium, DC); general involucre 

 of 1-3 setaceous bracts, leaf-sheaths swollen; Pyrenees. 

 L. gallicuin, Bauh. ; bracts of general involucre many, 

 reflexed, linear-lanceolate, ciliate, bifid or trifid, leaves 

 decompound, stem striated ; Dauphiny, Pyrenees. 



Order XXXIX.— ARALIACEiE. 



Flowers usually in umbels; calyx-teeth, petals, and 

 stamens 5 each ; ovary entirely inferior ; fruit a drupe 

 or berry, with one or more I -seeded cells. A rather 

 large order of erect or climbing shrubs or trees, chiefly 

 tropical, with only one Central European representative. 



I. Hedera, L. 



Climbing shrubs with simple leaves ; flowers in 

 umbels ; fruit a black berry. 



H. Helix, L., Ivy; rocks and walls. 



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