54 KANUXCULACl'LE. Cimici/uya. 



2-3-ternate and theu ^innately 3-5-foliolate ; leaflets ovate and oblong, incised and 



dentate, or ternunal one also 3-cleft, mostly acuminate. 



C. FtfeTiDA, L., the original species, of N. Asia, &c., is given by Pursh as of the N. W. 



Coast, no doubt mistakenly, but the original, the var. simplex (C. simplex, Wormsk.), was 



from the opposite sliore of Kamtschatka. It has short-pedicelled flowers and at first pubescent 



short-stipitate carpels. 



C. Americana, Micnx. A yard or less high, with rather weak stem and lax elongated 

 raceme, a few shorter ones below : leaves pale beneath : pedicels widely spreading, hardly 

 shorter than the flower and the follicles : petiUs 2-horued and with a concave nectariferous 

 spot below : carpels 4 or o, shorter than their slender stipe ; follicles mostly 5 lines long ; 

 seeds all over about uniformly squamiferous. — Fl. i. 316 ; Torr. & Gray, Fl. i. 36; Gray, 

 Gen. 111. t. 20, f. 14-19. C. podocarpa, Ell. Sk. ii. 16. Achea podocarpa, DC. Syst. i. 382 ; 

 Deletes. Ic. Sel. i. t. 66. — Moist woods of the Higher Alleglianies, S. Pennsylvania to 

 Georgia; first coll. by Michaux ; fl. August, September; mainly hermaphrodite. 

 C. laciniata, Watson. Leaves brighter green, more deeply and copiously incised and 

 cleft: racemes panicled, loo-sely flowered: flowers smaller and stamens much fewer : carpels 

 in flower pubescent and longer than their stipes ; follicles half inch long, twice the length 

 of the stipe ; .seeds apparently shorter-squamiferous on the disk. — Proc. Am. Acad. xx. 352. 

 — Oregon, on the flanks of Mount Hood, Mrs. Barrett, Henderson. Near C. Dahurica. 

 Flowers apparently all hermaphrodite. 



* * Follicles 1 to 3, not stipitate : seeds nearly terete : petals wanting, sometimes one or 



two deformed stamens: style shorter, disposed to be recurved or uncinate: racemes 



spiciform. 



C. Arizonica, Watson, 1. c. Less tall: leaflets ovate or oblong-ovate (1 to 3 inches long), 



moderately incised and serrate : raceme (as far as seen) solitary, with pedicel much shorter 



than the very numerous stamens : ovaries and (half inch long) follicles 2 or 3, glabrous or 



nearly so ; seeds conspicuously squamiferous. — On Bill Williams Mountain, N. Arizona, 



■Lemmon. 



C. elata, Nutt. Slender, 3 to 6 or 8 feet high : leaflets roundish and cordate, mostly 3-lobed, 



2 tu 6 inches in diameter : racemes several, slender, small-flowered : ovaries and follicles 



1 to 3, the latter 4 or 5 lines long : stigma almost terminal on the short style : seeds minutely 



rugose-squamellose. — Nutt. in Torr. & Gray, Fl. i. 36. — Wet mountain woods of Oregon 



and Washington, Nuttall, Hall, Howell, Suksdorf, &c. Approaclies C. Japonica, Miq., and 



the related species of § Pitp-osperma, which, with short-squamellose seeds, have the short 



style surmounted by a broad and depressed terminal stigma, thus making a transition to the 



following section. 



§ 2. Macrotrys. Carpels and follicles solitary, or rarely 2 or 3, terete and 

 ovoid, not stipitate : style extremely short, thick, the truncate summit occupied 

 by a strictly terminal depressed stigma (as in Acttsa) : seeds horizontal in a 

 double row, depressed ; the coat close, smooth and firm. — i¥acrotri/s (abbre- 

 viation of Macrohotrys), Raf. Med. Rep. hex. 2, v. 352, & in Desv. Jour. Bgt. ii. 

 170 (1809). ActcBa § Macrotys (mistake for Macrotrys), DC. Syst. i. 383. Bo- 

 trophis, Raf. Med. Fl. i. 85 ; Fisch. & Meyer, 1. c. 20. Cimicifufja § Macrotys, 

 Torr. & Gray, 1. c. 



C. racemosa, Nutt. (Black Snakeroot, Black Cohosh.) Stem 3 to 8 feet high: 

 leaves 2-3-ternatelv and then often quinately compound; leaflets mostly ovate, of rather 

 firm texture : racemes few. virgate, rigidly erect, becoming a foot or two long : petals or 

 staminodes 1-2-horned : follicle rather shorter than the pedicel, not over quarter inch long, 

 the tip or short stvle abruptly recurved. — Gen. ii. 1."); Ell. Sk. ii. 16; Torr. & Gray, Fl. i. 

 ' 36 ; Grav, Gen. Ill.'i. 51, t. 20 ;' Lloyd Bros. Am. Drugs & Med. i. t. 21, f. 82-88. C. serpen- 

 taria, Pursh, Fl. ii. 372. Actcea racemosa, L. Spec. i. 504 (DiU. Elth. i. 79, t. 67) ; Michx. 

 Fl. 1.308; DC. I.e. 383; Eegcl, Gartenfl. xiii. 200, t. 443. A. mono'/ijna, Walt. Car. \^l. 

 Macrotrys acKtoides, Raf. Med. Rep. hex. 2, v. 352, & in Desv. Jour. Bot. ii. (1809) 170. 



