
154 PLANTS GROWING IN RICH OR ROCKY SOIL. 
And if authorities do differ with each other a little about the 
exact significance of these emblems, we do not mind very 
much ; because we have them all in the imagination, where we 
hold fast to them as part of this beautiful flower. | 
A, truncata, (Plate LXXVIII.) is another red and yellow 
variety which has petals as though cut off at the top, or trun- 
cate. It is extremely variable in size and foliage ; but is firm 
in its preference for shaded places, often by streams. 
A. ceritlea, (Plate LXXVIII.) or the long-spurred columbine, 
is an exquisite flower. It is a native of the Rocky Mountains, 
where on shady slopes it blooms abundantly. The illustration 
shows it in its blue gown: it is also fond of white and occa- 
sionally pinkish ; but never red. The ovate sepals with their 
slender spurs are spreading and double the length of the round 
lighter-coloured petals with which they alternate. In size it is 
quite three inches broad. ‘The beauty of the species has en- 
couraged enthusiastic horticulturists to introduce it into gar- 
dens. 
‘* So did the maidens with their flowers entwine 
The scented white, the blue and flesh-like Columbine.”—BROWN. 
WHITE BANEBERRY. 
Actea dlba. 
FAMILY COLOUR ODOUR RANGE TIME OF BLOOM 
Crow/foot. White. Scentless. New England southward. April, May. 
Flowers: small; ina dense, terminal raceme. Ca/yx.: of four to six sepals 
that fall early. Covol/a: of four to ten petals with claws. Stamens: numer- 
ous; with white filaments. /yst//: one; stigma, two-lobed. Ayzzt: a round- 
ish, oval, white berry with a dark eye at the apex; glabrous; poisonous. 
Leaves: compound with ovate leaflets in threes ; the upper ones often sharply 
cleft. Stem: smooth; high ; the flower-stalk a conspicuous, bright red. 
A very old friend to those that Visit the woods is the white 
baneberry. Its curious late summer fruit lingers perhaps better 
in the memory than the soft white bloom of early spring. 
A. rubra, the red baneberry, is very handsome and is readily 
distinguished by its cherry-coloured berries. It comes into 
bloom a little earlier than the above and is partial toa com 
soil. The berries are also said to be poisonous, 

