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f. macrdnthum, Morr. & Decne. Largk-flowered B., with similar 

 foliage, has large white tlowers with very long-spurred petals. Japan. 

 Several garden varieties are cult. 



5. CAULOPHYLLUM, BLUE COHOSH, PAPPOOSE ROOT. 



(Greek : »(em, Icnf ; the stcni seeniiiiii' to form a stalk for the great 



leaf.) A single species. 11 



C. thalictroides, Michx., with usually only 1 stem-leaf, and that 

 close to the top of the naked stem, and thrice ternate, but, having no 

 common petiole, it looks like 8 leaves ; and there is a larger and more 

 compound radical leaf, with a long petit)le. Albumen horny, the in- 

 tegument forming a thin blue pul]}. Glabrous (glaucous while young) 

 from thick, knotty, matted rootstocks. In rich woods, commoner W. 



6. JEFFERSONIA, TWINLEAF. (For Thomas Jeffersou.) H 



J. diphylla, Pers., sometimes called Kheumatism Root. Rich woods, 

 W. and S., sometimes cult. ; the pretty white flower and the leaves both 

 long-stalked from the ground, appearing in early spring. 



7. PODOPHYLLUM, IMAY APPLE, or MANDRAKE. (Greek: 

 foot, leaf, the 5-7 -parted leaf likened to a webbed-foot.) (Lessons, Fig. 

 326.) 2/ 



P. peltatum, Linn. Flower ^hite, l.i' broad; fruit ovoid, l'-2' long, 

 slightly acid, edible ; but the leaves and long running root-stocks drastic 

 and poistmous. Kich woods, c<:)mmon. 



VI. NYMPHiEACE^, WATER LILY FAMILY. 



Aquatic, perennial herbs, from strong, horizontal rootstocks, 

 with the leaves which float on the surface of the water or rise 

 above it mostly peltate or roundish heart-shaped (dissected 

 and immersed in No. 1), their margins in-rolled in the bud, 

 long-petioled; axillary 1-flowered peduiicles ; sepals and petals 

 hardly ever 5, the latter usually numerous and imbricated in 

 many roAVs. The genera differ so widely in their botanical 

 characters that they must be described separately. One of 

 them is the famoixs Amazon Water Lily, Victoria regia, with 

 floating leaves, '5 feet or more in diameter, and the magnificent 

 flowers almost in proportidu ; wliile the dull flowers of Wtiter- 

 8hield are only half an inch long. 



§ 1. Sepals and petals each o or 4. Stamens and pistils is or less, the latter I -:', seeded. 

 Flowers snudl. 



1. CABOMr.A. Sepals :iiiil petals :i. tlio laltci- oval and slioi-t-olawcl. Stam-'us 3-(), with 



e.xtrorse anthers. Pistils 2-4, with 3 iji'inlnlons ovules. Immersed slender pLints, 

 with mostly opposite or vertioill.ate, finely dissected leaves, or a. few floating, linear, 

 oblong', and peltate ones. Flowers sin;,'-!o, on Ion;? axillary peduncles. 



2. BRASENL\. Sepals and petals each 8 or 4, narrow, and much alike, dull purple, line.ar. 



Stamens 12-lS, with innate anthers. Pistils 4-l!<, forming indehiseent, l-i-seeded 

 pods. All the parts seiiai-ate and i>ersistent. Ovules commonly on the dorsal suturo. 

 Embryo, etc, as iii WaLer Lily, 



