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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 (Paeom'a), 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 (Podophyllum), 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 (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 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 (Polanisid), 

 from northern North America. The white and yellow cut- 

 leaved mignonettes {Reseda) 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 



