10 RANUNCULACEiE. 



Uplands. W. Penn. April and May. Per. S:em 6 to 18 inches high. Leave* 

 roundish in outline, on long petioles, liacemes loose, U to 12 flowered. Flowert 

 bright blue. 



4. D. consolida, L. Common Larkspur. 



Stem, erect, smoothish, divaricately branched; Jlowers few, in loose racemes; 

 pedicels longer than the bracts ; carpds smooth. Annual. Native of Europe. July. 

 Flowers blue. 



5. D. GRANDIFLORUM. Large-flowered Larkspur. 



Leaves palmate, many parted; lobes linear, distant; pedicels longer than the 

 bracts; petals shorter than the calyx. A superb perennial species from Siberia. 

 Flowers double, or tingle, in racemes ; dark brilliant blue, tinged with purple. 



6. D. ELATUM. Bee Larkspur. 



Leaves downy, 5-lobed; loles cuneate at base, trifid, cut dentate; spur inflexed. 

 Native of Siberia. Stem 5 to 6 feet high. Flowers blue, and at a distance re- 

 sembling a bee in form. 



12. ACONITUM. Linn. Wolfsbane. 



Gr. alone, a cliff or rock; in allusion to its place of growth. 



Sepals 5, very irregular, colored, upper one vaulted, larger 

 than the others. Petal- 5, the 3 lower ones minute, often 

 converted into a sac or short spur at the summit. Styles 

 3 — 5; Follicles 3 — 5, many seeded. — Perennials with pal- 

 mate or digitate leaves, and shoicy Jlowers in terminal spikes, 



1. A. uncinatum, Linn. American Monkshead. 



Stem slender, weak, climbing, with diverging branches. Leaves palmate or 3 to 5 

 lobed, with oval-lanceolate, cut dentate divisions; helmet obtusely conical, rostrate; 

 spur inclined, scmewhat spiral. 



Mountains and rkh shady soils along streams; rare. August. Stem 5 to 6 feet 

 long, supporting itself upon adjacent bushes. Leaves leathery, dark green, 4 to 5 

 inches wide. 1 lowers large, purple, 3 or 4 near the summit of each branch. 



2. A. reclinatum. Gray. 



A white flowered species ; is doubtless to be found in our mountains. 



13. ACTAEA. Linn. Bane-berry. 



Gr. al te, the elder ; on account of its resemblance to that plant. 



Sepals 4 — 5, deciduous, Petals 4 — 8, spatulate, ungui- 

 culate. Stamens numerous, dilated above; amiiers 2-lobed. 

 Pistils single; stigma sessile, depressed, 2-lobed. Fruit a 

 many-seeded berry. Seeds smooth, flattened, and packed 

 horizontally in 2 rows. — Perennials with ternately divided 

 leaves, and thick terminal racemes of white jlowers. 



1. A. RUBRA. Willd. Red Baneberry. 



Leaves twice and thrice ternate ; raceme hemispherical ; petals acute, shorter than 

 the stamens ; pedicels of the fruit shorter than the peduncle. Berries ovoid, oblong, 

 shining red, many-seeded, 



