320 POLYANDttIA ©I-PENTAGYNIA 



* * Carpels berry-like, not opening* 



8. A. alba, Bigel. Leaves twice and thrice tomato ; leaflets ovate- 



lanceolate ; raceme simple, oblong; pedicels thick; petals nearly as 



l>ng as the stamens, trancato; carpes bac :ate, inJchiscjnt, white* Beck, 



Jiot.fi. 14. 



A. spirata, var. alba. Jl'illtl. Sp. 2. /;. 1139. Mx. Am. I. p. 308. Pers. 



Syn. 2. p. 61. Alt. Ketv. 3. />. 286. 



A, araericana, var. alba. Pnrslu Am. 2. />. 366. JsTtttt. Gen. 2. /;. 10. 



Mart. Phil. 2. p. 9. Torr. Comp.fi. 217. Lindl. Envy. p. 460. 



A. pfcehypoda. Ell. Sk. 2. p. 15. 



A. brachypctala, var. alba. 7H\ Prodr. 1. //. 65. 



Wiiitr Act.ea. Vulgo — White Cohosh. 13ane-!;crry. 



ftoo/ perennial. Stem I to 2 fjet hii;h, slender, smonth. Leaves (ornately de- 

 compound, peii >latc ; leq/lcts 1 t-«-2 inches 1 mir, ami half an inch t » an inch wide, 

 ovate-lancejiate with a slender acuminatum, sin >oihUh,i nequally im-iscd-eerrate, 

 the ter.ninalonc often 3-lobed. Pa*eme 1 i<« '2 r3 inches long, terminal, somewhat 

 pubescent ; pedicels 1 third U) 3 fourths of an inch long, nearly as thick as the 

 ' rachls or common peduncle, finally divaricate and purplish, with each a small 

 lance-ovatc acuminate bract at ha se. Scj»als oblong-ovate, concave, while, cadu- 

 cous. Petals 4 to 8, white, oval, unguicidatc, or often cuncatc, dilated at apex and 

 truncate, rather shorter than the stamens. Stamens white, twice as long as the 

 ovary. Ovary oval ; stigma sessile, large, s^mewl a* ?. lobed. Fruit an oval t«er« 

 ry, abjut 1 fourth of an inch rndiamuter, milk white, or often tipt wi;h purple, 

 wh;n mature. 



Bab* Rocky woodlands ; Me: hem's Mill: rare. K. May. Pr. Aug.— Sept 



„..<%». This is quite rare, here; and was first detected by INTr. Jo&cru Jacob*. 

 In Its foliage and habit, it has a strong resemblance to the preceding : but the/ruiY 

 is very different, and would seem to warrant the separation made ly several 

 Botanists. Prof. De Candolle and Hooker, however, have kept them together. 

 Two or three additional species arc enumerated In the 1 T States. 



[Diospyros. O \'am % ria Kunocytiia.] 

 [Asa rum. (Jynu, ilria Poii/ut: i.H } 



Order 2. Di-Pciitagynia. 



254. AQUILEGIA. /,. J\*utt. Gen. 473. 

 [Latin, Aquila, an eagle; the spurs or nectaries resembling eagles' claws.] 



Calyx of 5 petaloid deciduous sepals. Petals 5, bilabiate, gaping, with 

 the upper Up large, flat, the lower one very small ; produced downwards 

 between the sepals into as many hollow spurs. Ovaries 5, superior. 

 Capsules 5, erect, acuminate, many-seeded. 



Herbaceous: leaves alternate, ternately compound; flowers terminal, scattered. 

 Nat. Ord. 3. Lindl. Ranunculacejb. 



1. A. canadensis, L. Spurs straight ; stamens exserted; styles fili- 

 form, as long as the stamens. Beck, Bot. p. 12. Icon, Bart. Am. 1. 

 tab. 36. 



Cakaotaw AariLEGiA. Vulgo— -Wild Columbine. 



perennial. Stem 12 to 18 inches high, paniculately branching, somewhat 

 i, ox minutely pilose. Leaves petiolate, once or twiee ternate ; 



