34 WEEDS AND USEFUL PLANTS. 
1 C. racemo’sa, Ell. Bacemes very long ; carpels mostly solitary, 
ovoid, obliquely beaked by the short thick style. 
Racemose Cumcrruga. Tall Snake-root. Black Snake-root. 
Root large, branching. Stem 4-6 feet high, slender, smooth, leafy near hia middle, 
naked above and below, with one or two radical sigs on long erect petio oles. Leaves 
ternately decompound, petiolate ; leafles 2-4 inches long, acute o unequally 
incised-dentate, the terminal one larger and often 310 b terminal, branching, 
6-12 inches long. Sepals 4, orbicular, concave, greenish white. Seeds compressed 
and angular. 
Rich woodlands. Fl. June. Fr. September. 
emit a dis root is s ams what m Suita nous pa 
astringent. Although a plant of no acemuelv" valae,—and 2 bl 
over-rated as a medicine,—the infusion of the yoot is so gener- 
ally regarded as a sort of Panacea for stock mal Hy for oh Peed 
that ory farmer ought to know it, and be able with certainty to 
Orper Il. MAGNOLIA’CE. (Maenouia Famiy.) 
Trees or 
gynous, estan a foah mous flowers 
and pet bélored and ‘avadged in 
series of threes, nip in the bud. f snag alternate, entire or lobed (never serrate). 
Stamens in several rows ; anthers adnate. Pistils mostly packed together hee oauge ing 
the prolonged nrhestide AY Seeds 1~2 in each carpel ; albumen fleshy ; embryo minu 
A small but superb family, more ornamental, however, than important i in agriculture. 
1. MAGNO’LIA, LD. Macwotia. | 
{Named in honor of Prof. Pierre Magnol, a French botanist.] 
Sepals 3. Petals 6-9. Stamens with very short filaments and anthers 
opening inwards. Pisti/s crowded on the long rape coherent i ina 
el and forming ofoty and rather woody cone-like fruit ; each carpel 
ng by its dorsal su Seeds berry-like, 1~2 in acl carpel, from 
which 4 aero ener when mature by a lon g thread or funiculus. 
Buds conical, the coverings formed of successive sen Pag stipules. 
1 M. gilau’ca, L. Leaves lance-oblong, obtuse, white beneath ; petals 
roundish-obovate ; cones small, oblong. 
Guavcovs Macyorza. Laurel or Small rabaigack Sweet as 
Shrub or small tree 4-20, or even 30 feet high, branching ; w' smooth, g 
matic bark. Leaves wig, 4-8 inches long, deciduous at oe North but persia t at 
‘the South, Flowers white, on thick, clu-shaped peduncles, 2-3 inche very 
_ Swamps from Massachusetts southward, mostly near the coast. aie 
Obs. This charming —_ tree is well worthy the attention of those 
who wish to surround their wellings with teat bet age 
iad hardy, and in ph attains a respectable size 
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