ORDER 1. RANUNCULACE.E. 23 



1 A. uncinatum L. Erect, weak (2f) ; leaf-divisions rhomb-lanceolate, cut-dentate; 



helmet obtusely conical, erect, short-beaked in front ; flowers blue. Ml?., N.Y. to Ga. 

 Leaves thick, 45' wide. Branches divergent. Panicle loo^e. June, July. 



2 A. reclinatum Gray. Trailing (3 If) ; leaf-divisions wedge-shaped, cut or lobed ; 



helmet elongated-conical, with a straight beak; flowers? white. Mountains, Va. 



3 A. NAPELLUS. Common Monk's-hood, or Aconite. Smooth and rigidly erect, 3f; Ivs. 



5-parted, and cut into broad-linear segm. channelled above ; fls. densely racemed, dark 

 blue (or white in ft. ALBUM), the hood broader ti.an high. From Europe. Summer. 

 1 A. ANTHOKA. Erect (1 2f) ; Ivs. multitid with narrowly linear segtn. ; fls. panicled, 

 large (as in the others), purple with yellow ; hood rather high-crowned. Europe. 



5 A. JAPONICUM. Smoothish, veiny, 3 5f ; fls. deep blue, in panicled spikes ; hood or 



helmet very high-crowned and inflated, with a thickened inflexed spur. Japan. 



6 A. VARIEGATUM. Erect (3 4f), very smooth ; leaves with rhomb-ovate divisions ; fls. 



loosely panicled, blue, edged with white ; helmet crown high, curved forward. Ju. + 



19. CIMIOIFUGA, L. BUGBANE. Sepals 4 or 5, caducous. Petals 

 Ktamen-like, I 8, clawed, 2-horncd at apex ; follicles 1 8, dry, dehiscent. 

 Leaves ternately decompound. Flowers white, in long racemes. 



MACRdxis. Pistil 1, with a broad stigma and seeds in two rows No. 1 



CIMICIFUGA. Pistils 38, with a minute stigma, seeds in one row Nos. 2, 3 



1 C. racemosa Ell. Black Snakeroot. Tall (5 8f ) ; rac. very long (1 3f ), plume-like 



with its innumerable white stamens. Woods. Can. to Ga, Fetid. July. 



2 C. Americana MX. Leaves triternate, thin; racemes slender, panicled; ovaries 



mostly 5, pods obovate, stiped. Mountains, Penn. to N. Car. 3 If. Aug., Sept. 



3 C. cordiiolia Ph. Leaves biternate, thick ; racemes panicled, slender ; ovaries 2 



or 3 ; pods oblong, sessile. Mountains, N. Car. 3 4f. Sept. 



20. ACTJEA, L. BANEBERRY. Sep. 4 or 5, caducous. Pet. 4 8, spatu- 

 1 ate, long-clawed. Fil. slender. Ov. 1, with a sessile, 2-lobed stigma. Berry 

 globous, with a lateral furrow, 1-celled, oo-seeded. U Lvs. ternately divi- 

 ded. Lfts. ovate, cut-lobed and toothed. Fls. white, in a short raceme. 

 A. spicuta L. ft. r-ubra MX. Raceme hemispherical; petals acute; pedicels slen- 

 der; berries red, ovoid-oblong. Woods, Can. to Penn., and W. 1$ 2f. Lvs. ample. 

 Raceme as broad as long. May. These plants are often described as species. 



y. alba MX. Raceme oblong ; petals truncate ; berries white, on thick stalks. Can. 

 to Ga. Common. White berries sometimes occur with slender pedicels, and 

 vice versa. Foliage exactly as in ft. Var. a. is European. 



21. HYDRASTTS, L. TURMERIC-ROOT. Sepals 3, petaloid, caducous. 

 Pet. 0. Ovaries 12 or more, becoming a baccate fruit, resembling a rasp- 

 berry ; acines 1- or 2-seeded. Roots yellow, a tangled mass, sending up a 

 single radical leaf and a stem which is 2-leaved and 1-flowered. Fig. 101. 

 II. Caiiadeiisis L. In damp woods, Can. to Car. and Ky. If. Leaves palmately 



3-5-lobed. Flower terminal, reddish-white. Fruit crimson. June. 



22. PJEONIA, L. P^EONY. Sepals 5, unequal, leafy, persistent. Petals 

 5. Ovaries 3 5, surrounded by an annular disk. Follicles oo-seeded. 

 U Root fasciculate. Leaves ternately or pinnately compound. Flowers 

 large, terminal, solitary. Figs. 36, 241. 



Sterns shrubby, perennial. Ovaries and pods 5. China Now. 1, 2 



Stems herbaceous, annual. x Leaflets entire or cut-lobed. Ovaries 2 or 3. .Nos. 3, 4 



x Leaflets many-cleft. Ovaries 5 Nos. 5, 6 



1 P. MOUTAK. TreePoeony. Ovaries distinct, half enveloped in the disk. 3- 4f, widely 

 branching. Flowers large, double, purple varying to white. June. 



