SPECIES OF PLANTS. 
(HP A number at the end of a specific description denotes the average 
height of the plant in the wild state — in feet with f. in inches with i. 
A. 
8—1. ACER. 23. 66. 
rubrum , (red maple, soft maple. O. r. Ap. !?.) leaves palmate, 5-lobed, 
cordate at the base, unequally gash-toothed, glaucous beneath, divi- 
ding incisions between the lobes acute : flowers in fives in sessile um- 
bels, with long pedicels ; germs glabrous. 50 f. S. 
saechari'num , (sugar maple, rock maple, hard maple, O. r-y. M. h*) leaves 
palmate 5-lobed, at the base sub-cordate, acuminate, obtusely sinuate, 
sinuate-toothed, glaucous beneath : peduncles in a nodding corymb. 
Large tree. 50 f. S. 
stria' turn, (striped maple, false dogweed, moose-wood. O. g. M. Ij.) lower 
leaves roundish, upper ones 3-cuspidate-acuminate, sharply serrate, 
glabrous : racemes simple, pendant. Small tree, with a greenish-strip- 
ed bark. 15 f. S. 
17—2. ACHILLEA. 49. ’55. 
millefo'lium , (yarrow, milfoil. O. w. J. 2J..) leaves 2 pinnatifid, downy: 
the divisions linear, toothed, mucronate : calyx and stem furrowed. 15 
i. S. 
12—5. ACONITUM. 2$. 61. 
uncina'lum , (monk’s hood. b. J. 2J..) stem flexuose : leaves palmate, 3 to 
5-parted ; divisions rhomb-lanceolate, gash-toothed : upper lip of the 
corolla lengthened, convex, beaked. Cultivated. 2 f. S. 
Exotic. 
naptV'lus , (wolf’s bane. b. J. 21.) leaves shining, 5-parted ; the divisions 
3-parted by gashed incisions, sub-divisions linear : upper lip of the cor- 
olla lanceolate, ascending, 2-cleft ; spur strait, obtuse. 2 f. 
6—1. ACORUS. 2. 13. 
cal'amus , (sweet flag, calamus. O. g-y. J. %.) spike protruding from the 
side of a sword-form leaf-like scape. Water or wet. Root strongly 
aromatic. 2 f. S. 
12—1. ACTjEA. 26. 61. 
america'na , (bane-berry. 6. w. 2)..) leaves twice and trice ternate ; racemes 
ovate : petals shorter than the stamens ; berries ovate-oblong. Var. 1 . 
alba , petals truncate : pedicels of the fruit thicker than the peduncle ; 
berries white, Var. 2. rubra , petals acute, pedicels of the fruit slender : 
berries red. 2 ft. 
21—1. ADI ANTHUM. 55. 5. 
peda'tum, (maiden hair. O. J. 2)..) frond pedate, with pinnate branches , 
leafets halved, upper margin gashed — barren segments toothed, fertile 
ones entire : stipe capillary, very glabrous. Woods. 1 1. S. 
