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Increasing by prostrate or subterranean suckers, so as to form large 
dense clumps 3°—6° high. Wet places and by streams, common— 
Toronto, Hamilton, Montreal. 
6. C. Panrcuzata, L’ Her.—Branches gray, smooth: leaves ovate- 
lanceolate, taper-pointed, acute at the base, whitish but not downy 
beneath: cymes convex, loose, often panicled: fruit white, depressed, 
globose: 4°—8° high, much branched, bearing a profusion of pure 
white blossoms. Thickets—Toronto, Hamilton. 
** Leaves mostly alternate, crowded at the end of the branches. 
7. C. ALTERNIFOLIA.—Branches greenish, streaked with white alter- 
nate leaves, ovate or oval, long-pointed, acute at the base, whitish, 
and minutely pubescent underneath: fruit deep blue. Shrub or tree 
8°—20° high, generally throwing its branches to one side in a flattish 
top, and with broad very open cymes. Copses, not uncommon— 
Toronto, Hamilton, Montreal. 
C. Florida deserves culture for its beauty. The barks of C. 
Florida, circinata, and sericea are counted amongst the best tonics 
of North America. 
Araliaceze.—An order very closely allied to dpiacee, but the 
fruit, usually consisting of more than two carpels, even when reduced 
to two, is not a cremocarp, nor is there ever a double epigynous disk. 
The plants are generally stimulant and aromatic. Many of the spe- 
cies are woody. The number of species recorded is 160, contained in 
21 genera, of which we have five species usually referred to two genera, 
though Dr. Gray reduces them to one. The reduced number of 
carpels in Panax, with the increased tendency to the suppression of 
one circle of the essential organs, seems to me to justify retaining the 
genus. 
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| Styles 5: flowers perfect or monceciously polygamous [apices of 
the sepals free, forming five short calyx-teeth] ..........ssseessses ABALIA. 
Panax, L.—Wild Ginseng. 
1. P. Quinauerouium, L.— False Ginseng.—Root spindle-shaped, 
often forked, 4’/—9' long, aromatic: stem 1° high: leaflets long- 
stalked, mostly five, large and thin, obovate-oblong, pointed ; styles 
