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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 



