ORDER 1. RANUNCULACEJE. 211 



blue, and when viewed at a little distance the stamens and bearded petals re- 

 semble a bee nestling within the calyx, f Siberia. 



7 D. graiidiflomrn. L. Lvs. palmately 5 7 -parted, lobes linear, distant; 

 sessile, 3-cleft pedicels longer than bract ; petals shorter than calyx. A superb 

 perennial. Pis. double or single, in racemes, of brilliant dark blue, with a tingo 

 of purple, f Siberia. 



Observation. A few other species may, perhaps, be found in gardens. All are 

 ghowy plants, of the easiest culture. 



18. ACONITUM, Tourn. WOLFSBANE. Fig. 283. (Gr. aKOvlro^ with- 

 out dust ; because the plants grow on dry rocks.) Sepals 5, irregular, 

 colored, upper one vaulted ; petals 5, the 3 lower minute, the 2 upper 

 on long claws, concealed beneath the upper sepal, recurved and nectar- 

 iferous at the apex ; styles 3 5 ; follicles 3 5. If. Lvs. digitate or 

 palmate. Fls. in terminal spikes. 



1 A. uncinatum L. Stem flexuous ; pan. rather loose, with divergent branches; 

 Ivs. palmate, 3 5-parted, with rhomboidal-lanceolate, cut-dentate divisions; helmet 

 (upper sepal) exactly conical, short-beaked in front ; ova. villous. A cultivated, 

 poisonous plant, also native, N. Y. to Ga. St. 2f high. Lvs. coriaceous, dark 

 green, 4 5' wide. Fls. large, purple, 3 or 4 near the summit of each branch. 

 Jl., Aug. 



2 A. reclinatum Gray. St. trailing (3 8f long) ; Ivs. deeply 3 7-cleft, peti- 

 olate, divisions crenate, incised or lobed ; fls. ivhite, in very loose panicles ; hel- 

 met soon horizontal, elongated conical, with a straight beak in front. Alleghany 

 Mts., Va. and Southward. Aug. 



3 A. Napellus L. MONKSIIOOD. St. straight, erect ; Ivs. deeply 5-cleft cut 

 into linear segments, furrowed above ; uppei sep. arched at the back, lateral ones 

 hairy inside ; ova. smooth. A poisonous plant cultivated among flowers. It is 

 a tall, rank perennial, making quite a consequential appearance. St. 4f high, 

 with a long spicato inflorescence at its termination. Fls. dark blue, surmounted 

 by the vaulted upper sepal, as if hooded in a monk's cowl. Aug. There aro 

 varieties with flowers white, rose-colored, etc. 



19. CIMIC1FUGA, L. BUGBAHTE. (Lat. cimex, a bug, fugo, to drive 

 away; alluding to its offensive odor.) Sepals 4 or 5, caducous; petals 

 stamen-like, 1 8, small, clawed, 2-horned at apex ; sta. numerous, with 

 slender white filaments ; follicles 1 8, dry, dehiscent. 1 Lvs. ternatcly 

 decompound. Flowers white, in long, slender racemes. 



MA.OROTYS. Pistil 1, with a broad stigma, and seeds in two rows ..................... "No. 1 



CIMIOIFUQA vera. Pistils 2 S, with a minute stigma, seeds in one row ............ Nos. 2, 3 



3. C. racemcsa Ell. BLACK SXAKEROOT. Lfts. ovate-oblong, incisely serrate j 

 rac. very long ; caps, follicular, ovoid, sessile. Plant resembling a tall Actsea, 

 found in upland woods Can. to Ga. St. 4 8f high, with long, panicled racemes 

 of white-sepaled and monogynous flowers. Petals 4 6, small. Sta. about 100 

 to each flower, giving the raceme the appearance of a long and slender plume. 

 Fls. very fetid. Jn., Jl. (Actaea, L. Macrotys, Kaf.) 



2 C. Americana MX. Glabrous ; Ivs. triternate, segm. ovate, terminal one cunei- 

 form at base, 3-parted or 3-cleft, and incised; petals concave, sessile, 2-lobed, 

 nectariferous at base ; ova. 25, stiped, obovate and pod-shaped in fruit ; sds. 

 C 8, flattened vertically. Mts Penn. to N". Car. andTenn. St. 3 Gfhigh. Lfts. 

 2 4' long, with coarse, unequal, mucronate serratures. Fls. smaller than in C. 

 racemosa, in a long panicle of racemes. Aug. (C. podocarpa Eli. Actcea podo- 



3 C. cordifolia Ph. Lvs. Uternate; Ifts. Iroadly cordate, 3 Globed; ova. 13; 

 follicles sessile^ 8 1 0-seeded. Mts. Carolina. St. 3 5f high, terminating in a long 

 glabrous panicle of racemes. Sep. 5, roundish, petals spathulate, bifid, few or 

 wanting 



