AMERICAN PASQUE-FLOWER 



AMERICAN PASQUE-FLOWER 



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Ancindnc pdlcns, var, Niittallidna. Pulsalilla hirtissima 



Perennial. In dry soil, prairies. Illinois to the North- 

 west Territory, Nebraska, and Texas. Absent from 

 northern Ohio. March, April. 



Rootstock. — Thick. 



Scape. — Six to twelve inches 

 high, with a three-leaved in- 

 volucre and solitary terminal 

 flower. 



Leaves. — Much divided into 

 narrow, linear, acute lobes; the 

 basal on slender petioles, those 

 of the involucre sessile, and 

 erect or ascending. 



Flowers. — Large, white or 

 tinged with purple, two to 

 three inches across. 



Calyx. — Five to ten petaloid 

 sepals, white or pale bluish 

 purple. 



Corolla. — Wanting. 



Stamens. — Many; inner sta- 

 mens with anthers, outer sta- 

 mens often sterile. 



Pistil. — Many carpels in a 

 head, each with a long, hairy 

 style. 



Fruit. — A head of akenes, 

 each with a long, persistent, Pasque-Flower.' p«/5a«/;a A,V/(5«w 



feathery plume, made by the After Gray's "Genera Plantae 

 growing style. Americae" 



A Western Anemone of exquisite beauty, opening its 

 starry flowers very early in the spring, and later in 



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