FALSE RUE-ANEMONE 



The Rue-Anemone comes a little earlier than Ane- 

 mbne qui nqiicf alia and bears a more delicate flower; 

 perhaps the delicacy of its leaves adds to its charm. 

 These resemble those of the Meadow-Rue and give 

 the common name to the plant. It likes moist woods 

 and flowers abundantly throughout May. The flowers 

 appear in a little umbel of two or three blossoms, sur- 

 rounded by an involucre of what is apparently a loose 

 whorl of long-petioled, three-lobed leaflets. The 

 centre flower opens first. This plant was formerly 

 given in the botanies as Anemone thalictroides ; after- 

 ward it appeared as Thalictrum anemonoldes; finally 

 it got the name Anejnojiella thalictroides^ which, how- 

 ever, it seems to have lost, and in the late botanies 

 it stands as Syndesmon thalictroides. The explanation 

 of all these changes lies in the fact that the plant so 

 resembles both Anemdne and Thalictrum in its specific 

 characters that botanists name it according to their 

 personal views. 



FALSE RUE-ANEMONE. ISOPYRUM 

 Isopyrum hiterndtiim 



Perennial. Moist woods and thickets. Ontario to 

 Minnesota, south to Florida and Texas. Rare in northern 

 Ohio. May. 



Root. — Fibrous and bearing small tubers. 



Stem. — Erect, slender, branching above. 



Leaves. — Basal leaves ternately compound, long-pet- 

 ioled; the ultimate segments obovatc, obtuse, lobed, or 

 divided; stem-leaves similar but sessile or short-petioled. 



Flowers. — Several, white, terminal and axillary, one-half 

 to three-fourths of an inch across. 



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