RANUNCULACEiE. (CROWFOOT FAMILY.) 
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1 - 2-pinnate leaves, from large terminal buds in early spring. 
(Name from £cuft6s t yellow, and piCa, root.) 
1. Z. apiffolia, L’Her. — Shady banks of streams, in the 
mountains of Penn, and southward. Sherburne, New York, Dr. Dou¬ 
glass. Sterns clustered, 1 °-2° high. Leaflets cleft and toothed.— 
The roots of this, and also of the next plant, were used as a yellow 
dye by the aborigines. 
Tribe 5. CIMICIFUGE^E. The Bugbane Tribe. 
Hi DRASTIS) L. Orange-root. Yellow-puccoon. 
Sepals 3, petal-like, falling away when the flower opens. Pe¬ 
tals none. Pistils 12 or more in a head, 2-ovuled: stigma flat, 
2-lipped. Ovaries becoming a head of crimson 1-2-seeded ber¬ 
ries in fruit. A low perennial herb, sending up in early spring, 
from a thick and knotted yellow rootstock, a single radical leaf, 
and a simple hairy stem which is 2-leaved near the summit, and 
terminated by a single greenish-white flower. (Name probably 
from uSa,p, icater , and Spdo, to act, alluding to the active proper¬ 
ties of the juice.) 
J ei ®l?** ad4, * S * S ’ L -Rich woods, New York to Wis- 
donhlv ? rounded, heart-shaped at the base, 5 - 7 -lobed, 
5 serrate » veiny, when full grown in summer 4 '- 9 ' wide. 
IS. ACTJEA, L. Baneberry. Cohosh. 
Sepals 4 or 5, falling off when the flower expands. Petals 4 - 
10, small, flat, spatulate. Stamens numerous, with slender white 
“if/ 1 " “ ie “ 
f raw-seeded berry. Seeds smooth, flattened and packed 
horizontally in 2 row , p erennialS) ^ 2 _ 3 .^ y P ™ 
9 . ... *°ng, the slender pedicels an inch long 
>°ng; Raceme ob- 
eTen as large as the comr !' ’ Pedicels of the fruit thickened, 
ge as the common peduncle; berries milk-white—Woods^ 
