. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions, from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia, and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102d meridian. Botany; Botany. Genus io. CROWFOOT FAMILY. 91 Carpels i or 2, sessile ; seeds in 2 rows, smooth. Leaflets ovate, oblong or obovate, narrowed, truncate or subcordate at the base. i. C, raceniosa. Leaflets broadly ovate or suborbicular, deeply cordate. 2. C. cordifolia. Carpels 2-8, stalked; seeds in i row, chaffy. 3. I. Cimicifuga racemosa (L.) Nutt. Black Snakeroo
. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions, from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia, and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102d meridian. Botany; Botany. Genus io. CROWFOOT FAMILY. 91 Carpels i or 2, sessile ; seeds in 2 rows, smooth. Leaflets ovate, oblong or obovate, narrowed, truncate or subcordate at the base. i. C, raceniosa. Leaflets broadly ovate or suborbicular, deeply cordate. 2. C. cordifolia. Carpels 2-8, stalked; seeds in i row, chaffy. 3. I. Cimicifuga racemosa (L.) Nutt. Black Snakeroot Fig. 1864. Actaea racemosa L. Sp. PI. 504. 1753. Cimicifuga raceniosa Nutt. Gen. 2: 15. 1818. Cimicifuga racemosa dissecta A. Gray, Man. Ed. 6, 47. 1890. Stem slender, 3°-8° high, leafy above; root- stock thick. Leaves ternate, the divisions pinnate and the ultimate leaflets often again compound; leaflets ovate or oblong, or the terminal one obovate, acute or sometimes ob- tusish at the apex, narrowed, truncate or the lower subcordate at base, incisely-toothed, cleft, divided, or occasionally dissected, thick- ish, nearly glabrous; racemes compound, ter- minal, 6'-3° long, usually finely pubescent; pedicels bracted; flowers 6"-7" broad, foetid; petals 4-8, 2-cleft; stamens very numerous; pistils I or 2, sessile; stigma broad; follicles oval, 3"-4" long, minutely beaked; seeds in 3 rows, smooth, flattened. In woods, Maine and Ontario to Wisconsin, south to Georgia and Missouri. Ascends to 4000 ft. in North Carolina. Rich-weed. Rattle-weed. Rattle-snakeroot, Black Rattle-top or -root. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Britton, Nathaniel Lord, 1859-1934; Brown, Addison, 1830-1913. New York, Scribner
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