60 ACTAEA. 



Our only sp. left in it has even probably been 

 mistaken for another. 



1. A. MARITIMUM Raf. A. aureum MX. Pursh 

 Pinnate, smooth, pinnules stipitate oblong entire 

 obtuse or acute. Sea shore of Florida, large 

 fern, unfigured as yet, compare with next again. 



2. A. AUREUM L. (Bogs of Antilles ,oflen fig- 

 ured) gigantic fern 5 to JO feet high, pinnate, 

 pinnules sessile cuneiform oblong oblique obtuse, 

 veins reticulated. The Ongpi of Sumatra uni- 

 ted to this, is a third sp. 



ACTAEA Linneus united thereto sp. with 

 capsule instead of berry, other botanists have 

 united Cimicifuga with it, having many cap- 

 sules ! a double blunder. The real Actaeas 

 have a real berry, not opening. We have two 

 sp. distinguished by me since 1802 ; but Muh- 

 lenberg prevented me to publish them, because 

 both deemed then var. of Ac-tea spicata : while 

 Bigelow has published them since as peculiar. 

 The blue berry species is the Caulophylum. 



1. A. RUBRA Raf. Big. brachypetala & am- 

 ericana of others. Petals acute shorter than 

 stamens, last leaf trilobe, berries red. Deep 

 woods from Canada to Kentucky, and Carolina. 



2. A. ALBA Raf. Big. Beck, pachypoda Elli- 

 ot. Petals truncate longer than stamens, last 

 leaf ovate, berries white, 5 seeded on thick pe- 

 duncles often white also. Canada to Carolina. 

 Leaves in both bi-triternate, flowers white ver- 

 nal, see med. fl. Seen alive. Autikon. 



Actca racemosa see Botrophis serpentaria. 



ACTINE A Jussieu or Actinella of Persoon, 

 adopted by our botanists, being identic with Ac- 

 tinia a genus of animals, was changed by me to 

 Ptilepida 1817, which see. 



ACTIMERIS Raf. mispelt Actinomeris by 

 Nuttal, who proposed it. Well distinct from aft 



