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spurs, columbines, buttercups, meadow-rues, anemones, 
liver-leaf, and many other relatives; aconite, or monk’s- 
hood, of great medicinal value, also belongs to this family. 
The barberry family, which is represented by a single 
bed on the ridge to the right of the crowfoot family, con- 
tains, among others, the blue-cohosh and the may-apple or 
mandrake (Podophyllum), natives of North America; 
the twin-leaf, a native of the northeastern United States; 
and of Japanese plants, the red epimedium. In the poppy 
family may be found the oriental poppy, a native of Asia 
Minor and Persia, and here may be seen also the cordate 
Macleaya, from Japan, and the Mexican poppy, a native of 
Mexico and found as a weed in many tropical and warm 
temperate regions. In the fumitory family are the bleed- 
ing-hearts (Bicuculla), represented by the wild bleeding- 
heart from the eastern United States. The mustard family, 
which comes next in the sequence, occupies two beds. To 
this family belong the candy-tufts, represented here by the 
evergreen candy-tuft, from southern Europe and Asia 
Minor, and the alpine rock-cress, from Europe and North 
America, one of the showiest flowers in early spring, its 
mantle of pure white flowers making it a conspicious 
object; there are many other species represented in this 
group. The caper family has as representatives the showy 
pedicellaria, a native of the Old World, and the clammy 
weed (Polanisia), from northern North America. The 
white and yellow cut-leaved mignonettes (Reseda) repre- 
sent the mignonette family. Across the path to the right, 
on the ridge and partly surrounding a rocky knoll, is the 
bed devoted to the orpine or stonecrop family, where there 
may be found many of the stonecrops (Sedum), among the 
more showy and attractive being: the great purple stone- 
crop, the great stonecrop, the white stonecrop, and the 
mossy stonecrop, all natives of Europe and northern Asia; 
the wild stonecrop from our own country; the Siberian 
stonecrop and the poplar-leaved stonecrop, both from 
Siberia; and a Japanese species, Siebold’s stonecrop; also 
