152 THE FLORA. 



1 A. spica'ta. Red B. Common in rocky woods, Can. to Penn. andW. Plant smooth 



l-2f., bearing 2 or 3 large bi- or triternate leaves and a short terminal raceme. 



Petioles 4-7' long. Stems hollow. Pedicels slender, 9" long. Berries cherry-red, 



oval, 6". May. 

 t A. alba. White B. Foliage the same as in No. 1. Stem solid. Raceme oblong, petal* 



very Blender. Pedicels in fruit as thick as the peduncle, red. Berries smaller '4-5"} 



milk-white, May. 



14 HYDRASTIS. Turmeric-root. 



Petals none. Sepals 3, petal-like, soon falling. Ovaries 12 or more, be- 

 coming a fleshy fruit resembling a raspberry. Acines 1- or 2-seeded. 

 If. Roots a tangled mass, yellow, sending up in spring a single radical leaf, 

 and a stem which is 2-leaved aud 1-flowered. 



H. Canaden'sis. In damp woods, Can. to Car. and Ky.,rare eastward. Leave? palmatcly 

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



ORDER II. MAGNOLIA'CEJE. The Magnoliads. 



Trees and shrubs with membranous stipules sheathing the buds, with 

 leaves alternate, leathery, simple entire, or lobed, never serrate ; 

 flowers solitary, large and showy, mostly odorous and perfect ; 

 sepals 3-6, colored like the 6-12 hypogynous imbricated petals; 

 stamens numerous, hypogynous, distinct, and many ovaries ; 

 fruit compound, composed of the united carpels. 



Analysis of the Genera. 



Pistils arranged in a cone 2 



Pistils whorled in a single row. Shrub. South. Star Anise. ILLIC run. 



2 Anthers opening inwards. MAONO'LIA. 1 



2 Anthers opening outwards. LIRIODEN'DRON. 8 



1. MAGNO'LIA. 



Sepals 3. Petals 6-9. Anthers longer than the filaments, opening in- 

 wards. Carpels 2-valved, 1-2-seeded, imbricated into a hard, cone-like 

 fruit. Seeds berry-like, suspended when ripe by a long seed- stalk. A 

 noble genus of trees or shrubs, with large, fragrant flowers. 



Native Magnolias, flowering with the leaves. . . .a 



Exotic Magnolias, flowering bflfore the leaves expand. . . .8 



