RANUNCULACE.E. \\ 



Rocky woods. May. Stem about 2 feet high. Leaves very large when full grown. 

 Flowers white. Berries red in racemes 3 to 4 inches long ; pedicels slender, 1 inch 

 long. 



2. A. alba. Big. White Baneherry. Cohosh. 



Leaves twice and thrice ternate; raceme oblong ; petals equal to the stamenn, 

 truncate at the apex; pedicels of the fruit as large as the peduncles. Berries few- 

 eeeded. 



Wood?. May. Plants 1 to 2 feet high, bearing 2 compound leaves, and a cluster 

 of white flowers. Leaflets 1 to 2 inches long, half as wide. Raceme 1 to 3 inches 

 long, 1\4 thick, at length purple. Berries milk white tipped with red, smaller than 

 in A. rubra. 



14. CIMIOIFUGA. Linn. Bugbane. 



Lat. cimcr, a bug, andfugo, to drive away. 



Sepals 4 — 5, falling off soon after the flowers expand. 

 Petals 3 — 8, spatulatc, small, on claws, 2-horned at the apex. 

 Stamens numerous. Pi.stils 1 — 8, forming dry follicular 

 carpels in fruit ; carpels 1 — 8, many seeded. Style, short. 

 — Perennials with fernately divided leaves, and white fetid 

 flowers in long slender racemes. 



1. C. racemosa. Ell. Black Snakeroot. 



Leivcs tornately decompound; leaflets ovate-oblcnz, incisely toothed; racemes 

 Very \on%\ petals 2. forked. slender; style 1; capsule follicular, dry, dehiscent, ovate. 



Rich woods: abundant. July and August. Stems 3 to 8 feet hijih, terminated 

 •with long, panic-led racemes of white monogynous flowers. Petals 4 to c", small. 

 Stamens about 100. Raceme plume-like, 6 to 12 inches leng. Rcct knotted, medi- 

 cinal. 



2. C. Americana. Michx. American Bugbane. 



Smooth. Leaves trlternate, segments ovate, terminal one wedge-form at the base; 

 S-partcd, or 3-elcft and incised ; pi'tals concave, sessile, 2-Iobcd, nectariferous at 

 base ; pistils 3 to 8 ; seeds flat, scaly. 



High mountains. August. S!em 3 to 6 feet high. Flowers smaller than in C. 

 racemosa; in a long panicle of racemes. Fdlicles mostly 5, abruptly beaked, 6 to 8 

 seeded. 



15. ZANTHORIZA. Linn. Yellow Root. 



Gr. -anthos, yellow, and riza, a root. 



Calyx deciduous, 5-sepaled. Petals 5, of 2 roundish 

 lobes, raised on a pedicel. Stamens 5 — 10. Ovaries 5 — ■ 

 15, beaked with the styles, 2-3 ovuled. Follicles membra- 

 naceous, compressed, 1 seeded. — A low plant with shrubby 

 shoots : stem and bark yellow and bitter. Leaves pianately 

 divided. Flowers polygamous, dull purple, in compound 

 drooping axillary racemes. 



1. Z. apiifolia. I/Her. 



Leaves p:eudo-pinnatc or ternate ; leaflets 5, sessile, incisely lobed and dentate. 



