﻿BUTTERCUP 
  FAMILY 
  87 
  

  

  V. 
  ANEMONE 
  L. 
  

  

  Perennial 
  herbs, 
  usually 
  with 
  basal 
  leaves, 
  and 
  2 
  or 
  3 
  op- 
  

   posite 
  or 
  whorled 
  stem 
  leaves, 
  constituting 
  an 
  involucre 
  some 
  

   distance 
  below 
  the 
  flower 
  or 
  flower 
  cluster. 
  Sepals 
  few 
  or 
  nu- 
  

   merous, 
  colored 
  and 
  petal-like. 
  Petals 
  usually 
  wanting. 
  Akenes 
  

   pointed, 
  or 
  with 
  long, 
  feathery 
  tails. 
  

  

  1. 
  A. 
  patens 
  L., 
  var. 
  Wolfgangiana. 
  PASQUEFLOWER. 
  Low 
  plants, 
  

  

  1 
  in.-l 
  ft. 
  high, 
  clothed 
  with 
  long, 
  silky 
  hairs. 
  Leaves 
  divided 
  

   in 
  threes. 
  Flower 
  single, 
  large, 
  showy, 
  pale-purplish, 
  borne 
  on 
  a 
  

   peduncle 
  developed 
  before 
  the 
  leaves. 
  Carpels 
  many, 
  with 
  long, 
  

   hairy 
  styles, 
  which 
  in 
  fruit 
  form 
  tails 
  2 
  in. 
  long. 
  Prairies 
  and 
  

   bluffs, 
  N.W. 
  

  

  2. 
  A. 
  caroliniana 
  Walt. 
  CAROLINA 
  ANEMONE. 
  Stem 
  simple, 
  from 
  

   a 
  roundish 
  tuber, 
  slightly 
  downy, 
  6-12 
  in. 
  high, 
  bearing 
  a 
  single 
  

   flower 
  about 
  1 
  in. 
  broad. 
  Basal 
  leaves 
  2-3, 
  long-petioled, 
  compound 
  

   in 
  threes, 
  the 
  divisions 
  cut 
  or 
  lobed 
  ; 
  stem 
  leaves 
  sessile, 
  compound 
  

   in 
  threes, 
  the 
  divisions 
  wedge-shaped. 
  Sepals 
  12-20, 
  white 
  ; 
  head 
  of 
  

   fruit 
  becoming 
  oblong 
  ; 
  akenes 
  woolly. 
  In 
  open 
  woods 
  W.* 
  

  

  3. 
  A. 
  cylindrica 
  Gray. 
  LONG-FRUITED 
  ANEMONE. 
  Plants 
  about 
  

  

  2 
  ft. 
  high, 
  branching, 
  with 
  an 
  involucre 
  of 
  long-petioled, 
  divided, 
  and 
  

   cleft 
  leaves, 
  from 
  within 
  which 
  spring 
  several 
  long, 
  naked 
  peduncles. 
  

   Flowers 
  greenish-white. 
  Sepals 
  obtuse. 
  Head 
  of 
  fruit 
  cylindrical, 
  

   composed 
  of 
  very 
  many 
  densely 
  woolly 
  akenes. 
  Dry 
  woods 
  and 
  

   prairies. 
  

  

  4. 
  A. 
  virginiana 
  L. 
  Plant 
  hairy, 
  2-3 
  ft. 
  high. 
  Peduncles 
  6-12 
  in. 
  

   long, 
  sometimes 
  forking, 
  the 
  first 
  ones 
  naked, 
  the 
  later 
  ones 
  with 
  a 
  

   little 
  2-leaved 
  involucre 
  at 
  the 
  middle. 
  Leaves 
  of 
  the 
  involucre 
  3, 
  

   each 
  3-parted, 
  the 
  divisions 
  ovate-lanceolate, 
  pointed. 
  Sepals 
  acute. 
  

   Head 
  of 
  fruit 
  ovoid. 
  Woods 
  and 
  meadows. 
  

  

  5. 
  A. 
  canadensis 
  L. 
  Plant 
  hairy, 
  rather 
  low. 
  Peduncle 
  arising 
  

   from 
  a 
  3-leaved 
  primary 
  involucre, 
  then 
  branching, 
  each 
  branch 
  

   bearing 
  at 
  the 
  middle 
  a 
  2-leaved 
  secondary 
  involucre. 
  Leaves 
  of 
  the 
  

   primary 
  involucre 
  broadly 
  wedge-shaped, 
  3-cleft, 
  the 
  divisions 
  cut 
  

   and 
  toothed. 
  Sepals 
  obovate, 
  white. 
  Head 
  of 
  fruit 
  spherical. 
  In 
  

   low 
  ground 
  or 
  woods. 
  

  

  6. 
  A. 
  quinquefolia 
  L. 
  WIND 
  FLOWER, 
  WOOD 
  ANEMONE. 
  Stem 
  

   simple, 
  from 
  a 
  thread-like 
  rootstock 
  ; 
  involucre 
  of 
  3 
  leaves, 
  each 
  

   petioled, 
  and 
  of 
  3 
  leaflets, 
  which 
  are 
  cut, 
  toothed, 
  or 
  parted. 
  Pedun- 
  

   cle 
  1 
  -flowered. 
  Sepals 
  4-7, 
  white, 
  often 
  tinged 
  with 
  purple 
  outside. 
  

   Carpels 
  15 
  or 
  20. 
  This 
  species 
  is 
  very 
  nearly 
  related 
  to, 
  but 
  now 
  

   regarded 
  as 
  distinct 
  from, 
  the 
  European 
  A. 
  nemorosa. 
  

  

  