516 RANUNCULACEAE 
ous provinces, N of near pem Ga. to 
Ala., Wis., and Pa.— fal 
2. A. reclinatum A. Gray. Stem trailing, 
5-25 dm. tall, leaf-blades thin, the larger 
ones 15-20 em. wide, the divisions mostly 
many-toothed: follicle 8-11 mm. long.— 
(AMERICAN-WOLFSBAN TRAI AILING- WOLFS- 
BANE.)— Woods, Blue Ridge and Hr 
em provinee s, Ga. t to Va.—Sum.—The wolfs- 
in the roots. e first- Gie d n pular name 
was derived Eao the use of the plant in 
poisoning wolves; the second name from the 
shape of the upper sepal. 
12. HEPATICA [Rupp.] Hil. Perennial seapose tufted herbs. Leaf- 
blades 3-lobed, persistent. Flowers solitary on each scape, n by a 
alyx-like involucre. Sepals several, wid ike.  Petals wanting. chene- 
cluster seated in the involucre—About 4 species, natives of ps north tem- 
perate sie a MOM URNA psa 
Lobes of the leaf-blades and bracts of the involueres obtuse. 1. H. Hepatica. 
Lobes of the leaf-blades and bracts of the involucres acute. 2. H. acuta. 
H. Hepatica (L.) Karst. Leaf-blades becoming 6—8 em. wide, the middle 
e ens noe. bac ts ae ok involuere ovate to elliptie, obtuse: sepals 
blue, purple or white, or sometimes quite 
k, 7-12 mm. long: ache puce ovoid- 
ellipsoid or ee S ardor 3 mm. long.— 
[Anemone Hepatica  L.]—(BLUE-ANEMONE. 
SQUIRREL -CUPS.) —Rocky a and Ec 
various provinces, N Fla. Mo. Man 
and N. S. 
H. acuta pium bs Leaf-blades 
eed 10—1 the middle lobe 
typically eed yis white to bluish- 
ple: aehene-body about 4 mm. long.— 
[Anemone acutiloba E ae 
F 
careous e Blue Ridge a more N pro- 
vinces, Ga. to Mo., Minn., and Que 
13. ANEMONE [Tourn.] L. Perennial scapose herbs with rootstocks. 
Leaf-blades lobed, divided, or dissected, not persistent. Flowers subtended 
by a foliaceous involucre. Sepals 4-20, petal-like. Petals wanting. Fila- 
ments filiform. Achene-cluster Jong- peduneled Mri 85 species, widely dis- 
‘tributed in temperate and arctic regions.—A NEMONES. WIND-FLOWERS. 
Achene densely long-woolly: fruit-head cottony at maturity. 
Rootstock tuberous: scape simple, 1-flowered. I. DECAPETALAE. 
Ro oc elongate: scape mostly branched, several- 
flow II. VIRGINIANAE. 
Achene finely ‘or obscurely pubescent: fruit-head not cottony. III. QUINQUEFOLIAE. 
I PETALA 
Involucre mostly above the middle of de scape: «dus of the 
achenes not projecting beyond the wool. 1. A. decapetala. 
