6 COMMON CANADIAN AVI 1,1) PLANTS, 



yellow, 1-1 inches broad. Swamps and wet meadows. A very 

 conspicuous plant in early spring. 



7. COP'TIS, Salisb. GOLDTHRI.AL. 



C. trifolia, Salisb. (THREE-LEAVED GOLDTHREAD.) Low and 

 stemless. Scapos 1-flowered, with a single bract above the 

 middle. Petals much smaller than the sepals. On logs and 

 about stumps in cedar-swamps. 



8. AQJJILE'GIA, Tourn. COLUMBINE. 



A. Canadensis, L. (WILD COLUMBINE.) Stem branching, a 

 foot or more in height, smooth. Leaves decompound; leaflets in 

 threes. Flowers nodding, scarlet outside, yellow within. 

 Rocky woods and thickets. 



9. ACT^E'A, L. BANEBERRY. 



L A. spica'ta, L., var. rubra, Michx. (RED B.) Raceme 

 short, breadth and length being about the same. Pedicels 

 slender. Berries red. Rich woods. 



2. A. alba, Bigel. ( WHITE B.) Raceme longer than broad. 

 Pedicels thickened in fruit, cherry-coloured. Berries white. 

 Same localities as No. 1. 



10. CIMICIF'UGA, L. BuGBANE. 



C. racemo'sa, Ell. (BLACK SNAKEROOT.) Stem 3-6 feet high. 

 Resembling a tall Actsea, but easily distinguished by its plume- 

 like raceme of white flowers. Along Lake Erie. 



11. HYDRAS'TIS, L. ORANGEROOT. YELLOW PUCCOON. 



H. Canadensis, L. A low plant, bearing a single radical 



leaf, and a pair of cauline ones near the summit of the simple 



stem. Leaves rounded, cordate, 5-7-lobed, very large when 



fully grown. Wet meadows, in early summer, south-westward. 



ORDER II. MAGNOLIA'CE^. (MAGNOLIA FAMILY. ) 



Trees or shrubs, with alternate entire or lobed (not serrate) 

 leaves. Sepals 3, coloured, deciduous. Petals 6-9, deciduous. 

 Stamens hypogynous, indefinite, separate ; anthers adnate. Car- 

 pels numerous, in many rows on an elongated receptacle. Fruit 

 resembling a cone. 



