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palmately cleft or dissected leaves, and showy flowers in racemes or paiiicles. 

 (The ancient Greek and Latin name, of uncertain origin.) 



1. A. Noveboracense, Gray. Erect from tuberous-thickened roots, 

 2 high, leafy, the summit and strict loosely flowered raceme pubescent ; leaves 

 rather deeply parted, the broadly cuneate divisions 3-cleft and incised ; flowers 

 blue, the helmet gibbous-obovate with broad rounded summit and short descend- 

 ing beak. Chenango and Orange Cos., N. Y. 



2. A. uncinatum, L. (WILD MONKSHOOP.) Glabrous; stem slender, 

 from tuberous-thickened routs, erect, but weak and disposed to climb ; leaves frm, 

 deeply 3 - 5-lobed, petioled, the lobes ovate-lanceolate, coarsely toothed ; Jlou-ers 

 blue. ; helmet erect, nltuKeli/ miii'ml, compressed, slightly beaked in front. Rich 

 shady soil along streams, Penn., and southward in the mountains; Wise. 

 June - Aug. 



3. A. reclinatum, Gray. (TRAILING WOT.FSRANE.) Glabrous; stems 

 trailing (3-8 long) ; leaves deeply 3-1-c/eft, petioled, the lower orbicular in 

 outline; the divisions wedge-form, incised, often 2 3-lobed ; JJou-crs irfiite,'m 

 very loose panicles; he/nut SIHI horizontal, elongated-conical, with a straight- 

 beak in front. Cheat Mountain, Va., and southward in the Alleghauies. 

 Aug. Lower leaves 5-6' wide. Flowers 9" long, nearly glabrous. 



19. CIMICIFUGA, L. Ere BANE. 



Sepals 4 or 5, falling off soon after the flower expands. Petals, or rather 

 transformed stamens, 1-8, small, on claws, 2-hurned at the apex. Stamens 

 as in Actual. 1'istils 1 -8, forming dry dehiscent pods in fruit. Perennials, 

 with 2 -3-U'niatol\ -divided leaves, the leaflets cut-serrate, and white flowers 

 in elongated wand-like racemes. (Name from cimex, a bug, auAfugo, to drive 

 away.) 

 1. CIMICIFUGA proper. Pistils 3 - 8, stipitate ; seeds fattened laterally, 



corf red irith ehajf'// s<Wes, iit one row in the membranaceous pods; style 



aid-shaped ; st/yina minute. 



1. C. Americana, Miclix. (AMERICAN BroRANE.) Stem 2-4 high; 

 racemes slender, panidcd , ovaries mostly 5, glabrous; pods flattened, veiny, 

 6 _ 8-seeded. Mountains of S. Penn. and southward. Aug. - Sept. 



2. MACROTYS. Pistil solitary, sometimes 2-3, sessile; seeds smooth, 

 flattened and parked horizontally in the pod in two rows, as in Actsea; 

 stif/iiid broad unit tint. 



2. C. racemosa, Nutt. (BLACK SNAKEROOT. BLACK COHOSH.) Stem 

 3-8 high, from a thick knotted rootstock ; racemes in fruit becoming 1-3 

 long; pods ovoid. Rich woods, Maine to Wise., and southward. July. 

 Var. DISSECTA, Gray. Leaves irregularly pinnately decompound, the rather 

 small leaflets incised. Centreville, Del. (Commons.) 



20. ACT-33A, L. CANEBERRT. COHOSII. 



Sepals 4 or 5, falling off when the flower expands. Petals 4-10, small, flat, 

 spatulate, on slender claws. Stamens numerous, with slender white filaments. 

 Pistil single; stigma sessile, depressed, 2-lobed. Fruit a many-seeded berry. 



