. 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. 90 RANUNCULACEAE. Vol. II. I. Actaea riibra (Ait.) Willd. Red Baneberry. Black Cohosh. Fig. 1862. Actaea spicata var. rubra Ait. Hort. Kew. 2 ; 221. 17S9. ^c(aea rabra Willd. Enum. 561. 1809. A. rubra dissecta Britton ; Britt. & Brown, 111. Fl. 2: 55. 1897. Erect, bushy, i°-2° high, pubescent or glabrate. Leaves petioled, or the upper ses- sile, ternate, th
. 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. 90 RANUNCULACEAE. Vol. II. I. Actaea riibra (Ait.) Willd. Red Baneberry. Black Cohosh. Fig. 1862. Actaea spicata var. rubra Ait. Hort. Kew. 2 ; 221. 17S9. ^c(aea rabra Willd. Enum. 561. 1809. A. rubra dissecta Britton ; Britt. & Brown, 111. Fl. 2: 55. 1897. Erect, bushy, i°-2° high, pubescent or glabrate. Leaves petioled, or the upper ses- sile, ternate, the divisions pinnate with the lower ultimate leaflets sometimes again com- pound; leaflets ovate or the terminal one obovate, toothed or somewhat cleft, or all deeply incised, the teeth mainly rounded or mucronate, or acutish; raceme ovoid; petals spatulate, shorter than the stamens; pedicels mainly slender, $"-?" long; berries red, oval or ellipsoid, s"-6" long. In woods, Nova Scotia to New Jersey and Pennsylvania, west to South Dakota and Ne- braska. April-June. A. spicata L., of Europe, has purplish-black berries. Coral- and -pearl. Red-berry. Snake-root. Poison-berry. Snake- berry. Toad-root. This and the following spe- cies are called also herb-christopher, grapewort and rattlesnake-herb. Actaea arguta Nutt., of western North America, with smaller globose red berries, enters our western limits in western Nebraska and South Dakota. 2. Actaea alba (L.) Mill. White Bane- berry. Fig. 1863. Actaea spicata var. alba L. Sp. PI. 504. I753. Actaea alba Mill. Card. Diet. Ed. 8, no. 2. 1768. Closely resembles the preceding species in habit and aspect. Leaflets generally more cut and the teeth and lobes acute or acuminate; ra- ceme oblong; petals truncate at the apex; fruit- ing pedicels as thick as the peduncle and often red; berries short-oval, white, often purplish at the end. In woods, Nova Scotia and Anticosti to Georgia, west to Minnesota and Missouri. Ascen
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