BERBERlDACEiE. (BARBERRY FAMILY.) 
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2. LEONTICE, L. (Caulophyllum, Michx.) Cohosh. 
Sepals 6, with 2-3 or more fugacious bractlets at the base, 
ovate-oblong. Petals 6 gland-like somewhat kidney-shaped or 
hooded bodies with short claws, much smaller than the sepals, one 
at the base of each of them. Stamens 6, opposite the petals: 
anthers oblong ; the face of each cell opening (as in the family) 
like a lid or valve, hinged at the top. Pistil gibbous : style short: 
stigma minute : ovary bursting at an early stage by the pressure 
of the 2 erect enlarging seeds, soon withering away ; the spheri¬ 
cal seeds naked on their thick seed-stalks, looking like drupes ; 
the fleshy integument blue ; the solid albumen horny. (Name 
abbreviated by Linnaeus from Leontopetalum of Tournefort. The 
name Caulophyllum was given because the leafstalks appear like 
a continuation of the stem.) 
1. L*. thalictroldes, L. (Blue Cohosh, or Pappoose-root.) 
Glaucous; stems simple from knotted and matted rootstocks; leaves 
ample, 3-ternate ; the stem-leaf with a short common petiole or none ; 
a smaller 2-ternate one at the base of the raceme-like panicle; leaflets 
vate-wedge-form, 3-lobed. — Rich woods, Maine and Rhode Isl¬ 
and to Wisconsin. May. Flowers small, yellowish-green. Seeds 
the size of large peas. 
3. JEFFEBSONIA, Barton. Tw,n-leaf. 
Sepals 4, fugacious. Petals 8, oblong, flat. Stamens 8 : an¬ 
thers oblong-linear, on slender filaments. Ovary ovoid, soon gib¬ 
bous, pomted : stigma 2-lobed. Pod rather pear-shaped, opening 
lair 3 ! r °“ n , T Dta “ y " lid ‘ Seeds ma "y on the 
ral placenta, with a fleshy lacerate aril on one side. — Peren¬ 
nial glabrous herb, with matted fibrous roots, long-petioled root- 
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