36 CROWFOOT FAMILY. 



1. fs>(/ hairy styles form fi->i/li,n/ tails l<> the. akencs, like those of Virgin' 9- 

 Bowtr: Jl. large, purple, in early s/irim/. Tin </e/ius PDLS AXILLA of some 

 authors. 



A. Pulsatilla, PASQUE-FLOWBK, of Europe. Cult, in some flower-gar- 

 ilens ; has the root-leaves iinely thrice-pinnatcly divided or cut; otherwise much 

 like the next. 



A. patens, var. Nuttalliana, WILD P. On the plains X. W. ; the 

 handsome j)iirj)lc or purplish flower (-2' nr more a<-ro-s when open) rising from 

 the ground on a low soft-hairy stem (.'!'-<;' high), with an involucre of manj 

 very narrow divisions ; 'lie leaves from the rout appearing later, and twice or 

 thrice-ternately divided and cut. 



2. S/wrt styles noi making long tails, but only naked or hair// ///is. 

 * Garden A.tTKUOl!lTBS, front S. Eu., with tuberous roots and very large flowers, 



A. COronaria, with leaves cut into many fine lobes, and 6 or more broad 

 oval sepals, also 



A. hortensis, with leaves less cut into broader wedge-shaped divisions and 

 loins, and many longer and narrow sepals, are the originals of tin: showy, 

 mostly double or semi-double, great-flowered GAKI>KN AXI:MONIES, of all col- 

 ors, red in the wild state, not fully hardy, treated like bulbs. 



* * Wild species, smaller -jiovoered. 



- Pistils very many, forming a dense woolly head in fruit: /raves of the in mint-re 

 long-petioled , compound : flowers of 5 small greenish-white sepals, silky beneath : 

 stem 2 -3 high. 



A. cylindrica, LONG-FRUITED A. Involucre several-leaved surrounding 

 several long naked peduncles; fl- late in spring (in dry soil N. & W.), followed 

 by a cylindrical head of fruit. 



A. Virginiana, VIRGINIAN A. Involucre 3-leavcd; peduncles formed in 

 siiceession all summer, the middle or first one naked, the others liearinic - leaves 

 (involucel) at the middle, from which proceed two more peduncles, and so on : 

 head of fruit oval or oblong. Common in woods and meadows. 



(- -i- Pistils fewer, not woolly in fruit : flower 1' or more broad. 



A. Pennsylvanica, PICXNSYLVANIAN A. Stem 1 high, bearing an invo- 

 lucre of 3 wedge-shajxid 3-elel't and cur sessile leaves, and a naked peduncle, then 

 2 or 3 peduncles with a pair of smaller leaves at their middle, and so on ; fl. white, 

 in summer. (Lessons, tig. 233.) Alluvial ground, X. >.<.- \V. 



A. nemorbsa, W>i> A. Stem4'-10' high, bearinir an involucre of 3 

 Ionic peiioled leaves of 3 or :"> leallets, and a single short-pedunelcd flower ; sepals 

 white, or purple outside. Woodlands, early spring. 



4. THALICTRTJM, MEADOW-RUE. (Old name, of obscure deriva- 

 tion.) The following are the common wild species, in \\oodlands and low 

 grounds. 



1. /VOHV ;.< p< if<rt,f ii\ in an umbel: resembling an A>n mmif : m-jntl* 5-10. 



T. anemonoides, RUK-AM;MONI;. A \ery smooilj and delicate little 

 plant, growing with Wood Anemone, which it resembles in ha\ing no stcm- 

 ieaves except those that form an involucre around the umbel of white (rarelv 

 pinkish) fliiwers, appearing in early spring; leallets roundish, .'f-lnbed at the 

 t'lul, long-stalked ; ovaries many-grooved, and with a flat-topped sessile stigma : 

 otherwise it would rank as an Anemone. 



2. I-lnirrrs mostiv dinrioits and nut handsome, small, in loose compound panicles ; 

 the 4 or 5 sepals falling early : stii/iim* xlmdir: id-nut several-grooved nn<l 

 angled : li'an.t lirnnti I// dn-u/ii/ mmd (Lessons, fig. 161), all alternate ; the itpper- 

 ntust tint /'>nii//n/ an involucre, 



T. dioicum, EAKLV MKAKOW-UI-K. Herb glaucous, l-2liigli; flow 

 ers greenish, in early spring ; the yellowish linear anthers of the sterile plant 

 hanging on long capillary filaments : leaves all on general petioles. Rocky 



Woods. 



T. purpurascens, PUKPLISU M. Later, often a little downy, 2 -4 



