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Leaves simple, variously lobed or divided. 



Flowers irregular. DELPHINIUM IV. 

 Flowers regular. 



With basal and involucral leaves only. 



Involucre more or less remote from the flowers. ANEMONE V. 



Involucre close to the flowers and resembling a calyx. HEPATICA VI. 



With basal leaves only. MYOSURUS VII. 



With both basal and stem leaves; involucre none. RANUNCULUS VIII. 



I. ISOPYRUM. 



(From ancient Gr., isopyron?) 



Slender herbs, with ternately decompound leaves and white, solitary, 

 or panicied flowers. Five deciduous, petallike sepals ; petals wanting 

 in our species. Carpels 2-6 or more, forming a head of follicles in 

 fruit. 



i. Isopyrum biternatum, T. & G. (L., bis, twice ; terni, three each.) FALSE 

 RUE ANEMONE. Slender, paniculately branched above, from fibrous or some- 

 times tuberiferous roots. Lower leaves long-petioled, biternate, the leaflets lobed 

 or divided. Stamens many, the filaments thickened above. Pistils commonly 4, 

 spreading in fruit. In moist woods or on moist, shady banks. 



H ACTJEA. Baneberry or Cohosh. 

 (Gr., aktea, name of the elder.) 



Tall, erect, perennial herbs, with regular, small, racemose flowers and 

 large, ternately compound leaves. Sepals petallike, 3-5 ; petals small, 

 3-10, rather narrow and clawed. Stamens numerous; ovary I with 

 many ovules ; fruit a rather large berry. 



1. Actzea rubra, Willd. (L., ruber, red.) RED BANEBERRY. From i to 2. 

 feet high. Leaflets toothed or cleft. Racemes ovate, pedicels slender, berries red. 

 In rich woods. 



2. Actsea alba, Mill. (L.,albus, white). WHITE BANEBERRY. Similar to the 

 preceding in habit. Racemes oblong. Fruiting pedicels thick. Berries white. 

 In rich woods. 



m. AQUILEGIA. Columbine. 



(L., aquilla, eagle, with reference to the spurs of the petals.) 



Erect, perennial herbs, with showy flowers and ternately or biternately 

 compound leaves. Sepals 5, regular, of the same color as the petals ; 

 petals 5, extending backward into hollow spurs, concave and spreading 

 in front. Stamens numerous ; carpels 5 and many-ovuled. 



