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ions are slightly pubescent, and channelled above. Leafets heart 

 shaped, cut and toothed, the odd one usually three lobed, veined, 

 glabrous, the veins slightly pubescent underneath. Raceme 

 hemispherical, or half ovate. Peduncles round, smooth, slightly 

 pubescent at top. Pedicels pubescent, largest at the extremities. 

 Calyx leaves four, oblong, green, striate, concave, caducous. 

 Petals often eight or ten, white, oval, acute, unguiculated, decid- 

 uous. Stamens numerous. Filaments twice as long as the 

 petals, filiform, subclavate, while. Anthers, before bursting, 

 cordate, acute, compressed, white. Pistil smooth, white. Germ 

 oval, placed obliquely, with a furrow on one side. Style none. 

 Stigma oval, two lobed, recurved at the ends. Berries shining, 

 cherry red, about sixteen seeded, on long filiform pedicels, a 

 fourth part as large as the common peduncle. — Woods. — May. — 

 Perennial. 



*AcT^A ALBA. White Actoia. White Cohush. 



A. 7'acevio ohlongo ; petalis staminibtis ccqualibus, 

 truncatis ; pedicellis frucius pedunculi instar. 



Raceme oblong ; petals equal to the stamens, trun- 

 cate; pedicels of the fruit as large as the peduncle. 

 Syn. AcT^A spicata, (i, alba. Mx. 



ActjEA Americana, «, alba. Pursh. 



ACT^A PACHTPODA. Elliott. 



Stem and leaves like the preceding, but somewhat larger and 

 smoother. Raceme oblong, twice the length and half the 

 breadth of the preceding; the pedicels being shorter and thicker. 

 Calyx leaves four, white, oblong, concave, caducous. Petals 

 four to eight, as long as the stamens, white, oval, unguiculated, 

 dilated upwards, and truncated. Stamens white, as long as the 

 petals, filaments as in the last but shorter, anthers heart shaped, 

 obtuse, white or yellowish. Germ and stigm.a as in the preced- 

 ing. Berries milk-white, tipt with red, smaller and about eight 

 seeded, on short, red, incrassated pedicels as large as the com- 

 mon peduncle. — Woods. — May. — A week or two later than the 

 foregoing. — Perennial. 



First published as a distinct species in my name, in Eaton's 

 Manual of Botany, afterward by Mr. Elliott under another name. 



