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**Flowers solitary (usually nodding) on long peduncles, large and perfect : sepals thick 
and mostly dull purple—LEATHER FLOWERS, 
2, C. Viorna L., var. coccinea James. Leaflets glaucous, coriaceous, obtuse, 
reticulated, 2 to 3-lobed or entire: sepals very thick and leathery, scarlet or pur- 
plish red, wholly connivent or only the tips recurved: long tails of the fruit very 
plumose,—Apparently found only between the Colorado and the Rio Grande. The 
stations reported are near Austin, New Braun fels, San Angelo, and in Gillespie County. 
3. C. reticulata Walt. Leatlets ovate or oval, entire or lobed, obtuse and mucro- 
nate (rarely acute), rigidly coriaceous and conspicuously reticulated on both sides: 
sepals pale purple and velvety outside: tails of the fruit long and very plumose.—In 
the valleys of southern and western Texas, but not abundantly collected. Easily 
recognized by its very rigid and conspicuously reticulated leaves, although in certain 
Texan forms the leaves are thinner than usual, 
4. C. Pitcheri Torr. & Gray. Leaflets thickish, ovate, acute, reticulated, entire 
or 2 to 3-lobed: sepals dull purple, with narrow and slightly margined recurved 
points: tails of the fruit slender and naked or shortly villous.—In the valleys of 
southern and western Texas; the most common “ leather flower,” 
5. C.crispa L, Leaflets thin, from lanceolate to ovate or cordate, entire or 3 to 
5-parted: sepals bluish purple, the upper half dilated and widely spreading with 
broad and wavy thin margins: tails of the fruit silky or glabrate.—From the coast 
(Brazos Santiago and northward) westward to the 100th meridian (Runnels Co.), 
2. THALICTRUM Tourn. (MEA DOW-RUE. ) 
Perennial herbs, with panicled (rarely racemed) apetalous flowers 
(perfect, dicecious, or polygamous), 4 or 5 (sometimes petaloid) sepals, 
numerous (rarely few) tailless ribbed achenes, and alternate ternately 
decompound leaves.—Our species are dicecious or polygamo-dicecious. 
1, T. purpurascens [L.. Glabrous or pubescent, stout, tall, leafy: leaflets remote, 
short-stalked, large, oblong or oblong-cuneate, with 3 commonly entire pointed lobes 
above: flowers in a pyramidal panicle: stamens numerous, the long filaments widened 
to the linear-oblong cuspidate anthers: achenes numerous, short-stipitate, ovoid, 
thin-walled, with 6 to 8 sharp ridges, tapering into the slender persistent style.—A 
very common “meadow-rue” elsewhere, and reported to occur throughout Texas, 
2. T. debile Buckley. Glabrous, weak and decumbent, 10 to 35 em. high, few- 
leaved: leaflets remote, long-stalked, thin, rotund, 3-lobed at apex, the rounded 
lobes entire or lobed again: flowers long-pedicelled and remote in an elongated almost 
simple strict panicle: stamens abont 10, the filaments short but slender, with oblong- 
linear mucronate anthers: achenes 2 to 5, subses;ile, oblong, terete, 8 to 10-ribbed, 
nearly beakless.—Sparingly collected and of unknown distribution in the State. A 
Texan form, with more rigid stem and smaller thicker nearly sessile leaflets is var. 
TEXANUM Gray (Hall Pl. Tex. 3). 
3. T.Fendleri Eng. Granular or glandular-pubescent, erect, sometimes tall: leaflets 
remote, stalked, small, round, often cordate at base, with 3 divergent lobes, the cen- 
tral or all of them again lobed, their divisions mostly pointed: stamens numerous, 
with slightly dilated filaments (often papillose-roughened above) and linear mucro- 
nate anthers: achenes 10 or less, substipitate, large, obliquely oval and flattened, with 
8to10 prominent nearly parallel ribs (occasionally reticulated).—In the mountains 
of western Texas. 
3. ANEMONE Tourn. (WIND FLOWER.) 
Perennial herbs with radical leaves, those of the stem opposite or 
whorled and forming an involuere remote from the apetalous solitary 
or umbellate flowers, few or numerous petaloid sepals, and pointed 
flattened (but not ribbed) achenes. 
