Vou. II.] CROWFOOT FAMILY. 
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2. Cimicifuga cordifolia Pursh. 
Heart-leaved Snakeroot. 
(Fig. 1557-) 
Cimicifuga cordifolia Pursh, Fl. Am. 
Sept. 373. 1814. 
Cimicifuga racemosa var. cordifolia A. 
Gray, Syn. Fl. 1: Part 1, 55. 1895. 
Tall, similar to the preceding species 
and perhaps intergrading with it. 
Leaflets very broadly ovate or orbicu- 
lar, acute, obtuse or acuminate at the 
apex, deeply cordate at the base, some- 
times 6’ wide; pistil 1, sessile; follicles 
apparently very similar to those of C. 
racemosa, Animperfectly understood 
species, reported to flower later than C, 
racemosa where the two grow together. 
In woods, southwestern Virginia to 
North Carolina and Tennessee. Tennes- 
see specimens agree exactly with the 
figure of this plant given in Botanical 
Magazine. p/. 2069. June-July. 
3. Cimicifuga Americana Michx. 
American Bugbane. (Fig. 1558.) 
Cimicifuga Americana Michx. Fl. Am, 1: 316. 
1803. : 
Stem slender, 3°-5° high, leafy. Leaves ter- 
nate, the divisions pinnate with many of the 
ultimate leaflets again compound; leaflets 
ovate or oblong, the terminal one generally 
cuneate, acute, thin, glabrate, all incisely 
toothed, cleft or divided, 1/-3’ long; racemes 
terminal, slender, compound, densely and 
finely pubescent 1°-2° long; flowers pedi- 
celled, 4//-6’7 broad; pedicels minutely 
bracted; petals few, 2-lobed; stamens numer- 
ous; pistils 3-8, stipitate, stigma minute; 
follicles inflated, membranous, 5’ long, nar- 
rowed below, tipped with a short oblique 
subulate beak; seeds in I row, flattened, 
chaffy. 
Blair Co., Pa., south along the mountains to 
Georgia. Aug.—Sept. 
11. AQUILEGIA L,. Sp. Pl. 533. 1753. 
Erect branching perennial herbs, with ternately decompound leaves, and large showy 
flowers. Sepals 5, regular, petaloid, deciduous. Petals concave, produced backward be- 
tween the sepals into a hollow spur; stamens numerous, the inner ones reduced to stamin- 
odia. Carpels 5, sessile, many-ovuled, forming heads of follicles in fruit. [Latin, eagle, 
from the fancied resemblance of the spurs to the eagle’s claws. ] 
A genus of beautiful plants, comprising about 15 species, distributed throughout the north tem- 
perate zone and extending into the mountains of Mexico. Besides the following, some 7 others 
occur in the western parts of North America. 
A, Canadensis. 
. brevistyla, 
. vulgaris. 
Spur of petals nearly straight; flowers scarlet, white or yellow. i 
Spur incurved; flowers blue or purple, about 9’’ long. 255 7 
Spur strongly hooked; flowers white or purple, 1'-2' long. 
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