8 DIALYPETALOUS EXOGENS 



Stem 1 to 2 feet high, slender, smooth. Leaves ternately decompound, petiolate ; 

 leaflets ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, incised-serrate. Raceme terminal, 1 to 2 or 3 

 inches long. Flowers white. Berry milk white, often tipt with purple. 

 Hob. Rocky woodlands : rather rare. FL May. Fr. Aug. Sept. 



* * Fruit 1 or more dry foUicular pods. 



11. CIMICIF'UGA, L. 



[Latin, Cimex, a bug, and/w^o, to drive away ; from its use.] 

 Sepals mostly 4. Petals (or staminodia) 1 to 8, minute, pedicellate, 

 2-horned at apex. Pistils 1 to 8. 



1. C. racemosa, Ell. Racemes very long ; carpels mostly sol- 

 itary, ovoid, obliquely beaked by the short thick style. 

 Actaea racemosa. L. and Fl. Cestr. ed. 2. p. 319. 

 RACEMOSE CIMICIFUGA. Bug-bane. Tall, or Black Snake-root. 



Stem 4 to 6 feet high, rather slender, leafy near the middle, naked above and be- 

 low, with 1 or 2 radical leaves on long erect petioles. Leaves triternate, petiolate ; 

 leaflets ovate-oblong, acute or acuminate, incised-dentate. Racemes terminal, 

 compound, virgate, 6 to 12 inches long, bearing many white flowers. Seeds flatted, 

 packed horizontally in 2 rows. 

 Hob. Rich woodlands : common. Fl. June. Fr. Sept. 



Obs. The white racemes of this plant, when in flower, are quite 

 conspicuous in our woodlands. The stem and leaves, when bruised, 

 have a disagreeable odor. The large root is somewhat mucilaginous 

 and astringent ; and an infusion of it is quite a popular medicine, 

 for both man and beast, without much regard to the nature of the 

 disease ! 



ORDER II. MAGNOLIACEAE. 



Trees or shrubs ; leaf -buds sheathed by membranous stipules ; leaves alternate, en- 

 tire, or lobed (never serrate) ; flowers solitary, hypogynous, polyandrous, polygynous, 

 usually large ; both sepals and petals colored, arranged in series of threes, imbrica- 

 ted in the bud ; anthers long, adnate ; pistils mostly packed together, and covering 

 the prolonged receptacle ; seeds 1 or 2 in each carpel ; albumen fleshy ; embryo 

 minute. 



A small but superb family of ornamental trees and shrubs, about equally divi- 

 ded between Eastern Asia and America. 



12. MAGUTOXIA, L. 



[Named in honor of Professor Magnol, a French Botanist.] 

 Sepals 3. Petals 6 to 9 or 12. Anthers introrse, or sometimes lat- 

 eral. Carpels imbricated in a strobile-like spike, dehiscent by the 

 dorsal suture. Seeds baccate ; when mature, pendulous from the 

 open carpel by a long slender funiculus. Buds terete and conical. 



1. M. glaiiCcT, L. Leaves lance-oblong, obtuse, glaucous be- 

 neath ; petals roundish-obovate ; cones ovoid. 

 GLAUCOUS MAGNOLIA. Sweet Bay. Swamp Sassafras. 



Stem 10 to 15 (or rarely twice that many) feet high, branching, with a smooth 

 glaucous aromatic bark. Leaves 4 to 6 or 8 inches long; petioles about % of an 

 inch in length. Flowers white, on thick clavate peduncles, very fragrant. 

 Hob. Swamps, and along rivulets : rare. Fl. June. Fr. Sept. 



Obs. This delightful little tree, though abundant in the swamps 

 of New-Castle county, on the south of us, is rare in Chester county. 



