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in thin layers. Leaves broadly ovate or cordate, 3-lobed, 

 doubly orenate, smooth. Flowers white, in umbel-like 

 corymbs terminating t!ie branches. Folicles 2-5, inflated, 

 purplish . — Eiver-banks. 



2. S. salicifo'lia, L. (Common Mbadow-Sweet.) Shrub 

 2-3 feet high, nearly smooth. Leaves wedge-lanceolate, 

 doubly serrate. Flowers white or rose-coloured, in a dense 

 terminal panicle. — Low grounds along streams. 



3. S. tomento'sa, L. (Downy M.), with deep rose-coloured 

 flowers; and the stems and under surface of the leaves 

 densely woolly, occurs eastward toward the sea-coast, and 

 in the northern counties of Ontario. 



3. GILLE'NIA, McEnch. Indian Physic. 

 G. trifolia'ta, Moench. (Bowman's Eoot.) Herb witt 

 3-foliolate leaves ; the leaflets ovate-oblong, pointed, rafuer 

 coarsely serrate ; stipules small, awl-shaped, entire. Flow- 

 ers white or rose-coloured, in loose few-flowered corymbs. — 

 Eich woods, chiefly south-westward. 



4. AGRIIHO'NIA. Tourn. AGBIMONr. 



1. A. Eupato'ria, L. (Common Agkimont.) Stem herba- 

 ceous, hairy, 2-3 feet high. Leaves interruptedly pinnate, 

 larger leaflets 5-7, oblong-ovate, coarsely serrate. Petals 

 yellow, twice as long as the calyx. — Borders of woods. 



2. A. parviflo'ra. Ait. (Small -flowered A.), has 

 crowded lanceolate leaflets, 11-19, with smaller ones inter- 

 mixed, and small petals. — S. W. Ontario. 



5. ALCHElIIL'IiA, Tourn. Lady's Maktlb. 

 A. VUlga'ris, L. Leaves large, several-lobed, serrate. 

 Flowers small, yellowish-green, in corymbose terminal 

 clusters. — Atl. sea-coast. 



6. POTE'RIKM, L. BOBNET. 

 P. Canadense. Stamens 4, long-exserted, white. Stem 

 3-6 feet high. Leaflets numerous, heart-shaped, ovate or 

 oblong-lanceolate, coarsely serrate. — Bogs and wet mea- 

 dows, Atl. Prov. 



