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2. A. VUlga'ris, L. (GARDEN COLUMBINE.) This species 

 has escaped from cultivation in some places. Spurs hooked. 

 Flowers blue, purple, or whitish. 



10. in I riiiv u >i, L. LARKSPUR. 



1. D. azu'reum, Michx. (PRAIRIE LAKKSPUR.) Carpels 3, 

 the pods erect. Lobes of the leaves numerous, narrowly 

 linear. Raceme strict, but not dense. Spur usually curved 

 upwards. N. W. 



2. D. Consol'ida, L. (FIELD L.) Has escaped from gar- 

 dens in a few places. The pistil is single, and the flowers 

 are scattered on the spreading branches. Petals 2, united. 



11. ACTJS'A, L. BANEBEREY. 



1. A. Spica'ta, L., var. rubra, Ait. (RED B.) Raceme 

 short, breadth and length being about the same. Pedicels 

 slender. Berries red. Rich woods. 



2. A. alba, Bigel. (WHITE B.) Raceme longer than broad. 

 Pedicels thickened in fruit, cherry-coloured. Berries white. 

 Same localities as No. 1. 



18. < I me u I A, L. BUGBANE. 



C. raeemo'sa, Ell, (BLACK SNAKEROOT.) Stem 3-6 feet 

 high. Resembling a tall Actaea, but easily distinguished 

 by its plume-like raceme of white flowers. South-western 

 Ontario. 



13. IIVIHMS i is, L. ORANGEROOT. YELLOW PUCCOON. 

 H. Canadensis, L. A low plant, bearing a single radi- 

 cal leaf, and a pair of cauline ones near the summit of the 

 simple stem. Leaves rounded, cordate, 5-7-lobed, very large 

 when fully grown. Wet meadows, in early summer, south- 

 westward. 



ORDER II. MAGNOLIA' CEJE. (MAGNOLIA FAMILY.) 

 Trees or shrubs, with alternate entire or lobed (not ser- 

 rate) leaves. Sepals 3, coloured, deciduous. Petals 6-9, 

 deciduous. Stamens -hypogynous, indefinite, separate ; 

 anthers adnate. Carpels numerous, in many rows on an 

 elongated receptacle. Fruit resembling a cone. 



