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 102nd meridian; 2nd ed. . ncle and oftenred; berries short-oval, white, often purplish atthe end. In woods, Nova Scotia and Anticosti to Georgia,west to Minnesota and Missouri. Ascends to 5000 Virginia. April-June. Races or hybrids withwhite berries and slender pedicels (A. ncglecia Gill-man, A. cbuniea Rydb.), and red berries on thick-ened pedicels are occasionally met with. White orblu
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 102nd meridian; 2nd ed. . ncle and oftenred; berries short-oval, white, often purplish atthe end. In woods, Nova Scotia and Anticosti to Georgia,west to Minnesota and Missouri. Ascends to 5000 Virginia. April-June. Races or hybrids withwhite berries and slender pedicels (A. ncglecia Gill-man, A. cbuniea Rydb.), and red berries on thick-ened pedicels are occasionally met with. White orblue cohosh. White-beads. Xecklace-weed. White-berry. Snake-root. 10. CIMICIFUGA L. Syst. Ed. 12, 659. 1767. Tall erect perennial herbs, with large decompound leaves, and white racemose 2-5, petaloid, deciduous. Petals 1-8, small, clawed, 2-Iobed or none. Stamens numer-ous, the filaments filiform. Carpels 1-8, many-ovuled, sessile or stipitate, forming folliclesat maturity. Stigma broad or minute. [Latin, to drive away bugs.] A genus of about 10 species, natives of North America, Asia and eastern Europe. Besides thefollowing, there are 3 on the western side of the continent. Type species: Cimicifuga foetida 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, Leaflets broadly ovate or suborbicular. deeply cordate. 2. C. cordifolia. Carpels 2-8, stalked ; seeds in i row, chaffy. 3. C, americana. I. Cimicifuga racemosa (L.) Xutt. Black Snakeroot. Black 1864. Actaea racemosa L. Sp. PI. 504. 1753. Cimicifuga racemosa Nutt. Gen. 2: 15, 1818. Cimicifuga racemosa dissecta A. Gray, Man. Ed. 6,47. 1S90. Stem slender, 3°-8° high, leafy above; root-stock thick. Leaves ternate, the divisionspinnate and the ultimate leaflets often againcompound; leaflets ovate or oblong, or theterminal one obovate, acute or sometimes ob-tusish at the apex,
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