60 ACTAEA. 



Our only sp. left in it has even probably been 

 mistaken for another. 



1. A. MXRiTiMv HA Kaf, A, aureumMx, 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 ,often fig- 

 ured) gigantic fern 5 to |0 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 Actea spicata : while 

 Bigelow has published them since as peculiar. 

 The blue berry species is the Caulophyluni, 



1. A. RUBRA Raf. Big. hrachypetala Sl 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. 



Actea racemosa see BotropJiis serpeniaria. 



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 all 



