150 EOSACEJE. (rose FAMILY.) 



on a long naked peduncle. — Meadows and Prairies, Penn. to Michigan, Illi- 

 nois, and Kentucky. June. — Flowers deep peach-blossom color, handsome, 

 the petals and sepals often in fours ! The bruised foliage exhales the odor of 

 Sweet Birch. 



§ 4. ARtJNCTJS, Seringe. Perennial herbs, with dicecious whitish flowers, in 

 many slender spikes disposed in a long compound panicle : leaves thrice-pinnate : 

 stipules obsolete: pods 3-5, several-seeded; pedicels reflexed in/ruit. 

 6. S. AriiuCUS, L. (Goat'b-Beakd.) Smooth, tall; leaflets thin, lance- 

 olate-oblong, or the terminal ones ovate-lanceolate, taper-pointed, sharply cut 

 and serrate. — Rich woods, CatskiU and Alleghany Mountains and westward. 

 June. (Eu. ) 



3. GILLENIA, Moeuch. Indian Physic. 



Calyx narrow, somewhat constricted at the throat, 5-toothed; teeth erect. 

 Petals 5, rather unequal, linear-lanceolate, inserted in the throat of the calyx ; 

 convolute in the bud. Stamens 10 - 20, included. Pods 5, included, at first 

 lightly cohering with each other, 2-4-seeded. Seeds ascending, with a close 

 coriaceous coat, and some albumen. — Perennial herbs, with almost sessile 3-fo- 

 liolate leaves ; the thin leaflets doubly serrate and incised. Flowers loosely 

 paniculate-corymbed, pale rose-color or white. (Dedicated to an obscure Ger- 

 man botanist or gardener, A. Gille, or Gillenius.) 



1. G. trifoliita, Moench. (Bowman's Root.) Leaflets ovate-oblong, 

 pointed, cut-serrate ; stipules small, awl-shaped, entire. — Rich woods, from W. 

 New York southward, and sparingly in the Western States. July. 



2. G. stipul&cea, Nutt. (American Ipecac.) Leaflets lanceolate, 

 deeply incised ; stipules large and leaf-like, doubly incised. — From W. Penn- 

 sylvania and New York to Illinois and Kentucky. June. 



4. POTERIXJM, L. (including Sanguisorba.) Buknet. 



Calyx with a top-shaped tube, constricted at the throat, persistent ; the 4 

 broad petal-like spreading lobes imbricated in the bud, deciduous. Petals none. 

 Stamens 4 - 12 or more, with flaccid filaments and short anthers. Pistils 1 - 3 : 

 the slender terminal style tipped with a tufted or brush-like stigma. Achenium 

 (commonly solitary) enclosed in the 4-angled dry and thickish dosed calyx- 

 tube. Seed suspended. — Chiefly perennial herbs, with unequally pinnate 

 leaves, stipules coherent with the petiole, and small, often polygamous or di- 

 cecious flowers crowded in a dense head or spike at the summit of a long and 

 naked peduncle, each bracteate and 2-bracteolate. (Name jror^pioK, a drinhing- 

 cup, the foliage of Burnet having been used in the preparation of some medici- 

 nal drink. ) 



1. P. Canad^nse. (Canadian Buknet.) Stamens 4, long-exserted, 

 club-shaped, white, as is the whole of the elongated and cylindrical spike ; stem 

 3° - 6° high, leaflets numerous, ovate or oblong-lanceolate, coarsely serrate, ob- 

 tuse, heart-shaped at the base, as if stipellate ; stipules serrate. (Sanguisorba 

 Canadensis, L., and former edition. )— Bogs and wet meadows; chiefly north- 

 ward. Aug. - Oct. 



