VOL. II.] 



CROWFOOT FAMILY. 



2. Cimicifuga cordifolia Pursh. 



Heart-leaved Snakeroot. 



( Fi g- I557-) 



Cimicifuga cordifolia Pursh, Fl. Am. 

 Sept. 373. 1814. 



Cimicifuga racemosa var. cordifolia A. 

 Gray, Syn. Fl. i: Part i, 55. 1895. 



Tall, similar to the preceding species 

 and perhaps intergrading with it. 

 Leaflets very broadly ovate or orbicu- 

 lar, acute, obtuse or acuminate at the 

 apex, deeply cordate at the base, some- 

 times 6' wide; pistil i, sessile; follicles 

 apparent!}' very similar to those of C. 

 racemosa. An imperfectly understood 

 species, reported to flower later than C. 

 racemosa where the two grow together. 



In woods, southwestern Virginia to 

 North Carolina and Tennessee. Tennes- 

 see specimens agree exactly with the 

 figure of this plant given in Botanical 

 Magazine, pi. 2069. June-July. 



3. Cimicifuga Americana Michx. 

 American Bugbane. (Fig. 1558.) 



Cimicifuga Americana Michx. Fl. Am. i: 316. 

 1803. 



Stem slender, 3-5 high, leafy. Leaves ter- 

 nate, the divisions pinnate with many of the 

 ultimate leaflets again compound; leaflets 

 ovate or oblong, the terminal one generally 

 cuneate, acute, thin, glabrate, all incisely 

 toothed, cleft or divided, 1'-$' long; racemes 

 terminal, slender, compound, densely and 

 finely pubescent i-2 long; flowers pedi- 

 celled, 4 // -6 // broad; pedicels minutely 

 bracted; petals few, 2-lobed; stamens numer- 

 ous; pistils 3-8, stipitate, stigma minute; 

 follicles inflated, membranous, 5" long, nar- 

 rowed below, tipped with a short oblique 

 subulate beak; seeds in i row, flattened, 

 chaffy. 



Blair Co., Pa., south along the mountains to 

 Georgia. Aug. -Sept. 



ii. AQUILEGIA L. Sp. PI. 533- 1753- 



Erect branching perennial herbs, with ternately decompound leaves, and large showy 

 flowers. Sepals 5, regular, petaloid, deciduous. Petals concave, produced backward be- 

 tween the sepals into a hollow spur; stamens numerous, the inner ones reduced to stamin- 

 odia. Carpels 5, sessile, many-ovuled, forming heads of follicles in fruit. [Latin, eagle, 

 from the fancied resemblance of the spurs to the eagle's claws.] 



A genus of beautiful plants, comprising about 15 species, distributed throughput the north tem- 

 perate zone and extending into the mountains of Mexico. Besides the following, some 7 others 

 occur in the western parts of North America. 



Spur of petals nearly straight; flowers scarlet, white or yellow. 

 Spur incurved; flowers blue or purple, about 9" long. 

 Spur strongly hooked; flowers white or purple, i'-2' long. 



1. A. Canadensis. 



2. A. brevistyla. 



3. A. vulgaris. 



