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lobed. The sepals purplish or greenish white. Common especially 

 in rocky woods and ravines. April-May. 



ANEMONELLA 



Low, smooth, perennial. Leaves all radical and 

 compound. Involucre compound at the base of an 

 umbel. Sepals 5-10, white or tinged with pink; 

 conspicuous. Petals none. Achenes 415, ovoid, 

 sessile. 



A. thalictroides, RUE ANEMONE. Stem and slender 

 petiole of the radical leaf 1-3 dm. high, rising from 

 a cluster of thickened roots. The leaflets roundish, 

 somewhat 3-lobed, cordate at the base. Flowers sev- 

 eral in an umbel. Common in woods. 



HEPATICA 



Leaves heart-shaped and 3-lobed, thickish and 

 persistent through the winter. The new leaves ap- 

 pear after the flowers, the latter occurring singly 



. . ..., P Anemonella 



on hairy scapes. (Name from the resemblance thalictroides, 

 of the leaves to the outline of the liver, hepas.} Rue anemone. 



H. triloba. Leaves with 3 obtuse or rounded lobes. Sepals 6-12, 

 blue, purplish, or nearly white. The achenes numerous in a small 

 loose head, pointed, hairy. Common in woods in early spring. 



H. acutiloba. Leaves with 

 3-pointed lobes or sometimes 

 5-lobed. The lobes of the in- 

 volucre also acutish. Merges 

 into the preceding. 



ANEMONE 



Perennial herbs with rad- 

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ical leaves, the stem leaves 



Hepatica triloba. , . , 



being 2 or 3 together, op- 

 posite or whorled, and forming an involucre, remote from the 

 flower. Peduncles i-flowered, solitary or umbellate. The sepals 

 few or many, petal-like. Petals none. (Named from the Semitic 



