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member of this family and a native of North America. The 
tanks in the court of the public conservatories contain a great 
many additional kinds. The hornwort family likewise occu- 
pies a position in this pool. The aquatic members of the crow- 
foot family are grown here, the terrestrial forms being placed 
in four beds to the westward ; one of these beds is given up en- 
tirely to the peonies (Paeonza), of which there are a number of 
interesting and handsome forms, and in the other beds will be 
found larkspurs, columbines, buttercups, meadow-rues, anem- 
ones, liver-leaf, and many other relatives; aconite, or monks- 
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, contains, 
among others, the blue cohosh, and the may-apple or man- 
drake (Podophyllun), natives of North America; the twin- 
leaf, a native of the northeastern United States; and the 
Japanese plants, the two-leaved aceranthes and the red epi- 
medium. In the poppy family will be found the oriental 
poppy, a native of Asia Minor and Persia, and here may be 
seen also the cordate bocconia, 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 bleeding-hearts (Licuculla), 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 conspicuous 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 (Polanisra), 
from northern North America. The white and yellow cut- 
leaved mignonettes (/teseda) represent the mignonette family. 
Across the path to the right, on the ridge and partly sur- 
rounding a rocky knoll, is the bed devoted to the orpine or 
