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. . elled, soli-tary or 2-3 together, brownish-purple; sepalsovate, acute; follicles 4-8, inflated, light yel-low, i-seeded, diverging, curved at the apex,minutely beaked. In woods, southwestern New York to Kentuckyand Florida. Also called Yellow-wood. The low-est leaves are sometimes 3-foIiolate. Parsley-leaved yellow-root. April-May. 9. ACTAEA L. Sp. PI. 504. 1753. Erec
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. . elled, soli-tary or 2-3 together, brownish-purple; sepalsovate, acute; follicles 4-8, inflated, light yel-low, i-seeded, diverging, curved at the apex,minutely beaked. In woods, southwestern New York to Kentuckyand Florida. Also called Yellow-wood. The low-est leaves are sometimes 3-foIiolate. Parsley-leaved yellow-root. April-May. 9. ACTAEA L. Sp. PI. 504. 1753. Erect perennial herbs, with lar^e tcrnately compound leaves, and small white flowersin terminal racemes. Sepals 3-5. petaloid, fugacious. Petals 4-10, small, spatulate or narrow,clawed. Stamens numerous; filaments slender. Ovary I, many-ovuled, forming in fruit alarge somewhat poisonous berry; stigma broad, sessile. Seeds numerous, in 2 rows, hori-zontal. [.Xn ancient name of the elder.] About 6 known speces. natives of the north temperate zone. Besides the following anotheroccurs in the western United States. Type species: Actaca spicata L. Pedicels slender; berries red. i. Pedicels stout; berries white. 2. A. 9° RANUNCULACEAE. Vol. II. I. Actaea rubra (Ait.) Willd. Red Baneberry. Black Cohosh. Fig. 1862. Actaea spicala var. rubra Ait. Hort. Kew. 2: 221. rubra Willd. Enum. 561. rubra dissecta Britton ; Britt. & Brown, 111. Fl. 2: 55. 1897. Erect, bushy, i°-2° high, pubescent orglabrate. Leaves petioled, or the upper ses-sile, ternate, the divisions pinnate with thelower ultimate leaflets sometimes again com-pound; leaflets ovate or the terminal oneobovate, toothed or somewhat cleft, or alldeeply incised, the teeth mainly rounded ormucronate, or acutish; raceme ovoid; petalsspatulate, shorter than the stamens; pedicelsmainly slender, s-? long; berries red, ovalor ellipsoid, $-6 long. In woods. Nova Scotia to New Jersey andPennsylvania, west to
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