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1. O. llnearifolla Watson. Stem slender, perennial from a 

 deep-seated roundish tuber; 5 inches high or less. Leaves 2-3, 

 upon slender petioles; 1-2 ternate; leaflets entire, linear. Um- 

 bels 2-10-rayed, with nearly sessile flowers. Anthers red. 

 March-May. In rich moist soil in shaded mountain valleys. 



8. ZIZIA. 



Smooth perennials, 1-3 ft. high. Leaves simple or ternately 

 compound. Umbel without involucre and with involucels of 

 small bractlets. Flowers yellow; calyx-teeth prominent. Car- 

 pels with filiform ribs and long- styles. Stylopodium none. 

 Oil-tubes large, solitary in the broad intervals. Fruit glabrous, 

 flattened laterally; oblong to ovate; the central one of each 

 umbellet sessile. 



1. Z. cordata (Walt.) Koch. Basal leaves long-petioled; 

 round-cordate with the margin crenate or rarely lobed or di- 

 vided; stem-leaves of 3-5 ovate and serrate or incised leaflets. 

 Fruit ovate. Wet upland meadows. June-July. 



CORNACE^E. Dogwood Family. 



Trees, shrubs or herbs. Leaves simple, entire, ex- 

 stipulate. Flowers in cymes or involucrate heads. 

 Calyx adherent to the 1-2-celled ovary. Corolla-lobes 

 4; together with the 4 stamens borne on the "inferior 

 ovary. Fruit a 1-2-celled drupe or berry. 



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1. CORNUS. Dogwood; Cornel. 



Leaves opposite. Flowers perfect. Calyx minutely 4- 

 toothed. Petals white or greenish. Style slender; stigma 

 capitate or truncate. Fruit a small drupe. 



1. C. stolonifera Michx. Shrub 3-8 ft. high with branches 

 (especially the "water-sprouts") smooth and bright-red. Leaves 

 ovate, rounded at base, abruptly sharp-pointed; whitish be- 

 neath. Flowers small, in open and flat cymes; petals white 

 or somewhat cream-colored. Fruit white or lead-color. Along 

 mountain streams. May-September. ' Locally called "Kinni- 

 kinnick," a name properly belonging to the Bearberry. 



ORDER PRIM1TL.ALES. 



^ PRIMULACE-flE. Primrose Family. 



Herbs with simple exstipulate leaves. Flowers per- 

 fect, regular. Calyx usually of 5 united parts. Corolla 

 usually o 5 united petals (wanting in Glaux). Stamens 

 as many as the corolla-lobes. Pistil consists of 1 style, 



