CROWFOOT FAMILY 



fruit showing heads of silky akenes resembling those of 

 some species of Clematis. 



Pasque is a name for Easter, and Pasque-Flower 

 means Easter-Flower. In Minnesota the Pasque-Flower 

 is known to the children as the first flower to bloom in 

 early spring. It is not really the first, several open 

 earlier, but this is the one that attracts popular at- 

 tention. 



MEADOW RUE ANEMONE 



Anemonella thalidroides. Syndesmon thalictroides 



Syndesmon, Greek, bound together, the plant uniting many 

 of the characters of Anemone and Thalidrum. 



Perennial. In rich woods and borders of thickets. 

 Maine to Minnesota and Kansas. Abundant in northern 

 Ohio. March-June. 



Roots. — Fleshy, tuberous. 



Flowering stem. — Slender, smooth, six to twelve inches 

 high. 



Leaves. — Basal leaves twice compounded in threes; 

 stem-leaves three in a whorl, forming an involucre, two 

 consisting of three rounded, scalloped, petioled leaflets; 

 sometimes the third has but a single leaflet. 



Flowers. — Three to six, slender pedicelled, white flowers, 

 one-half to three-fourths of an inch across, at the summit 

 of the stem. 



Calyx. — Of six to ten sepals, white or sHghtly flushed 

 with purple, resembling petals. 



Corolla. — Wanting. 



Stamens. — Many; filaments threadlike; anthers oblong. 



Pistil. — Compound; carpels six to ten; style none; 

 stigma simple. 



Fruit. — Akenes, pointed, deeply grooved. 



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