13 RANUNCULACEJ3. Anemone. 



§ 3. Carpels oval, without tails : pedicels solitary or in pairs (rarely 

 more), all leafless and l-flowered: leaves of the involucre sessile or 

 petioled. — Anemonanthea, DC. 



3. A. Caroliniana (Walt.): root tuberous; leaves ternately divided; seg- 

 meiits 3-cleft or incised ; lobes linear and somewhat cuneiform, toothed at 

 the apex ; involucre very distant from the flower, 3-leaved ; leaflets sessUe, 

 cuneiform, 3-cleft, with the lobes linear, divaricate, mostly entire ; sepals 15- 

 20, oblong or oblong-linear.— W'aZ^. Car. p. 157; Ell. sk. 2. p. 53; DC. 

 prodr. 1. p. 19. A. tenella, Ptirsh > ft. 2. p. 386 ; Mitt. > gen. 2. p. 21. 



P. heterophylla: radical leaves 3-parted, or 3-lobed, or almost undivided ; 

 segments undivided or 3-lobed, roundish-oval, crenately serrate. — A. he- 

 terophylla, Nutt. ! mss. 



North Carolina, Schweinitz ! S. Carolina, Walter; Louisiana and 

 Arkansas, Z>r. Pitcher! Dr. Leavenworth .' On the Pl^itte, Dr. James ! 

 and Missouri, Nuttall! Texas, Drummond! P. on rocks, Arkansas, Nut- 

 tall I March-April. — Plant from 4-12 inches high, slender, clothed with a 

 loose hairy pubescence. Leaves variable in the breadth of their segments 

 and lobes, sometimes tripartite and very narrow. Flower an inch, some- 

 times an inch and a half in diameter : sepals white, often tinged or spotted 

 with purple; the outer ones (6-8) thicker; the others petaloid, often al- 

 most linear. Head of carpels cylindrical-oblong, woolly. The flowers in P. 

 are smaller and greenish, and the head of carpels cylindrical. — We are un- 

 able to discover any character that will distinguish this species from A. de- 

 capetala, Linn, of S. America. Hooker and Arnott (in hot. of Beechey^s 

 voy. p. 4. t. 1.) have indeed shown that the latter species sometimes bears 

 several flowers on each scape, and hence they place it in the section Anem- 

 onospermos. In our Chilian specimens, however, the scapes are only 1- 

 flowered, as usually described ; and A. St. Hilaire (ft. Bras, merid. 1. p. 

 5.) who appears to know the plant well, makes no mention of the scapes 

 bearing more than one flower. 



4. A. parviftora (Michx.) : leaves 3-parted ; lobes cuneiform, 3-cleft, cre- 

 nate, obtuse ; ' those of the involucre nearly similar, but longer and narrower, 

 sessile ; sepals 6, oval. Hook. ft. Bor.-Am. l.p.5; Michx. ft. 1. p. 319; 

 DC. prodr. 1. p. 19. A. cuneifolia, Juss. ann. Mus. 3. p. 248, t. 21. f. 1; 

 Pjirsh ! fl. 2. p. 386. A. borealis, Richards, app- Frankl. journ. ed. 2. p. 22. 



Labrador ! Canada to the Arctic Sea, lat. 70°; Kotzebue's Sound, Beechey; 

 Anticosti, Pursh.'— Plant 2-12 inches high. Flowers white tinged with 

 blue. Heads of carpels rounded, compact, woolly. 



5. A. Baldensis (Linn.) : leaves nearly glabrous and somewhat fleshy, 

 ternately divided ; segments laciniately 3-parted, with the lobes linear, ob- 

 tuse ; those of the involucre similar, on short villous petioles ; scape vfllous, 

 1-floAvered ; sepals 6, obtuse, spreading, with the lower surface somewhat 

 hairy. Hook. ft. Bor.-Am. I. p. 5; DC. prodr. 1. p. 19. 



Rocky Mountains, lat. 52° — 55°, Drummond. — Flowers tinged with blue. 

 Root fusiform. — A native also of high mountams in Europe. 



6. A. nemorosa (Linn.): leaves ternate ; leaflets undivided, or with the 

 middle one 3-cleft and the lateral ones 2-parted, incisely toothed, acute ; 

 those of the involucre similar, petioled ; sepals 4-6, oval. — Hook. ft. Bor.- 

 Am.. 1. p. 6 ; Michx. ! ft. 1. ^. 319 ; Pursh ! ft. 2. p. 387 ; Ell. sk. 2. p. 53 ; 

 DC. prodr. 1. p. 20. A. lancifolia, Pursh! ft. I. c. ; DC. prodr. I. c. 



P. quinquefolia : lateral leaflets of the involucre 2-parted to the base.— 

 A. quinquefolia, Linn. 



Woods, very common, Canada ! to Georgia, and west to the Rocky Moun- 

 tains. April-May. — Plant 6-8 inches high. Sepals mostly 5, white or 

 pale purple. 



