ORDER 1. RANUNCULACE^. 23 



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



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

 Leaves thick, 45' wide. Branches divergent. Panicle loose. June, July 



2 A. recliiiutum Gray. Trailing (3 7f ; ; 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 segni. channelled above ; fls. densely racemed, dark 

 blue (or white in /3. ALBUM), the hood broader than high. Prom Europe. Summer. 



4 A. ANTHORA. Erect (1 2f) ; Ivs. multifld with narrowly linear Begin. ; fls. paniclud. 



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



5 A. JAP6NICUM. Smoothish, veiny, 3 5f ; fls. deep blue, in panicled spikes ; hood 01 



helmet very high-crowned and inflated, with a thickened indexed 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. Jn. + 



19. CIMICIFUGA, L. BUGBANE. Sepals 4 or 5, caducous. Petals- 

 stamen-like, 1 8, clawed, 2-horned at apex ; follicles 1 8, dry, dehiscent. 

 Leaves ternately decompound. Flowers white, in long racemes. 



MAcnSxis. Pistil 1. with a broad stigma and seeds in two rows No. J 



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



1 C. racemosa Ell. Block 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 ; ovariec 



mostly 5, pods obovate, stiped. Mountains, Penn. to N. Car. 3 4f. Aug., Sept. 



3 C. cordll'olla Ph. Leaves biternate, thick ; racemes panicled, slender ; ovaries 2 



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



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

 late, 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. Lfls. ovate, cut-lobed and toothed. Fls. white, in a short raceme. 

 A. splcata L. /3. rubra MX. Raceme hemispherical ; petals acute ; pedicels slen- 

 der; berries red, ovoid-oblong. Woods, Can. to Penn., andW. 1J 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 j3. Var. a. is European. 



21. HYDRASTIS, L. TURMEIUC-ROOT. Sepals 3, petaloid, caducous. 

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

 berry ; acines 1- or 2-seecled. Hoots yellow, a tangled mass, sending up a 

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

 11 . C'anadeusis L. In damp woods, Can. to Car. and Ivy. If. Leaves palmately 



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



22. PJEONIA, L. P^ONY. Sepals 5, unequal, leafy, persistent. Petal.- 

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

 If Root fasciculate. Leaves teruately or pinnately compound. Flower: 

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



Stems shrubby, perennial. Ovaries and pods 5. China Nos. 1, - 



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



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



1 P. MOUTAN. Tree Pcecmy. Ovaries distinct, half enveloped in the disk. 3-4f, widtih 

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



