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cana. Nutt N. Am. FL v. 2. p. 20. — Anemone Hepatica. Linn. Sp. PL p. 758. Curt. BoL 

 Mag. ^.10. 



«. foliorum lobis acutiusculis. — H. triloba. Chalx in Fill. Delph. v, 1. p, 336. De Cand. 

 Prodr* V. I. p. 22. 



$. foliorum segmentis acutls. — H. acutiloba. De Cand. Prodr. v. \. p, 22. Anemone 



triloba, var. /3. acuta. Blgel. PI. Bost ed. 2. p^ 222. Pursh, Ft, Am. v. 2, p, 391. 



^. foliorum lobis obtusis. — H. Americana. Ker in Bot. Reg. t 387. De Cand. Prodr. 

 V. 1. p. 22. — H. triloba, ^, De Cand, Syst. Vegtt. v. 1. p. 216. — H. triloba, a. Pursh FL 

 Am. V. 2. p. 391. BigeL FL Bost ed. 2. p. 222- 



Hab. In woods, in the central limcstoue tracts, from Canada to lat. 52°. Mr, Drummond found it as far 

 north as lat. 55°, in the secluded alpine vallies on the eastern declivity of tlie Rocky Mountain rld"-e. Dr. 

 Richardson. The Tarieties grow indiscriminately. — A plant varying much in the lobes of its leaves, rouuded 

 obtuse, oval, or acute, as Michaux has justly remarked. In the young- state it is clothed with long 

 and on the petioles and scapes, spreading, silky hair. There can be no question of the identity of the 

 American and Europsean individuals. Dr. Boott has gathered a var. near Boston, United States with a 

 five-Iobed leaf. 



5. HYDRASTIS. Linn. 



CaL 3-sepalus, sepalis ovatis. Pet. nulla. Stamina ovariaque plurima. Cariopsides 

 baccatae, plurimse in capitulum aggregatas, stylo terminatte, l-loculares, 1-2 sperraa?. 

 Semina ovoidea, Isevigata. DC. 



1. H. canadensis. — Linn. Sp, PL p. 784. Mich. Am. v, 1. p. 317. Pursh, Fl. Am. v. 2. 

 p. 389. Elliott, Carol, v. 2. p. 55. De Cand. Prodr. v. 1. p. 23. — Warneria. " MiU. Ic. 

 2. p. 190. t 285." 



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Hab. Canada ; in water. Linn. According to Pursh, and other American Botanists, in shady woods on 

 fertile soil, and among rocks, in the Alleghany tract of mountains. Michaux. — We learn from Michaux, that 

 this plant seems confined to the Alleghany chain ; and, following its course, extends from Canada to Carolina. 

 It IS probably rare, for none of our recent travellers have seen it in Canada, nor have I ever received a 

 specimen. De CandoUe, who describes the plant from dried specimens, says that the root (which is bitter 

 pungent, and tonic, yielding a beautiful yellow dye, Avhencc the name Yelloic-Iloot,') consists of intensely 

 yellow fleshy tubercles. The stem is herbaceous, simple, single-flowered, bearing two or three leaves, the 

 two lower ones petiolated, the upper one nearly sessile, all of them 3-5 partite, the lobes coarsely toothed, 

 acute. Flowers white, purplish, terminal, pedunculated. Fruit fleshy, red, like that of a Jluhits, to the 

 herbaceous species of which, Nuttall compares the habit of the whole plant. 



6. ADONIS. DiU. 



CaL 5-sepalus5 adpressus, sepalis interdum basi solutis. Pet, 5-15, ungue nudo. Stam. 

 plurima, ad basin gonophori inserta, Ovaria plurima, Cariopsides plurima:;, monospermiB, 

 secus gonophorum spicata;, ovatas, stylo brevi subaccreto acuminata;. Embryo ovatus, 

 cotyledonibus subdistantibus. — Folia caullna pinnato-partita, lobis multifidis^ DC. 



1. A. autumnalis; caljce glabro, petalis 6-8 concavo-conniventibus calyce vix ma- 

 joribus, carpellis subreticulatis in capitulum ovatum aggregatis stylo brevissimo coronatis, 

 caule ramoso.— Z^mw. Sp, PL p. 111. Smith in Engl. Bot. t. 308. 



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