N. ORD.-RANUNCULACE&. 1 
GENUS.--ANEMON E,* LINN. 
SEX. SYST.—POLYANDRIA POLYGNIA. 
Pui PILE A 
NOUPTALLIANA. 
PASQUE FLOWER. 
SYN.— ANEMONE PATENS, VAR. NUTTALLIANA, GRAY; ANEMONE 
NUTTALLIANA, D. C.; ANEMONE LUDOVICIANA, NUTT.; ANE- 
MONE FLAVESCENS, ZUCC.; CLEMATIS HIRSUTISSIMA, POIR; 
PULSATILLA PATENS, GRAY; PULSATILLA PATENS VAR.; WOLF- 
GANGIANA, TRAUVT; PULSATILLA NUTTALLIANA, GRAY. 
COM. NAMES.—PASQUE FLOWER (CROCUS, MAY FLOWER, PRAIRIE 
FLOWER, AMERICAN PULSATILLA, HARTSHORN PLANT, GOSLIN- 
WEED). 
A TINCTURE OF THE WHOLE FRESH PLANT, ANEMONE PATENS, VAR. 
NUTTALLIANA, GRAY. © 
Description.—This beautiful prairie flower grows to a height of from 4 to 10 
inches, from a branched perennial voot. Stem erect and hairy, encircled near the 
flower by a many-cleft, silky-haired zzvo/ucre, composed of numerous linnear, acute 
lobes, which form the true stem-leaves. Leaves upon long hairy petioles, rising 
more or less erect from the rootstock; they are ternately divided, the lateral 
divisions sessile and deeply 2-cleft, the central stalked and 3-cleft; all the seg- 
ments deeply incised into narrow, linnear, acute lobes, smooth above and hairy 
beneath. /nflorescence a conspicuous, terminal, villous, light purplish-blue flower, 
fully developed and fertilized before the appearance of the true leaves. Sepals 
generally 5, at first incumbent, then spreading, answering to petals in appearance ; 
villous upon their outer surface. /efa/s.wanting, or replaced by minute glandu- 
lar bodies, resembling abortive stamens. Stamens innumerable, in a dense cir- 
clet surrounding the pistils ; filaments slender; anthers extrose, 2-celled; pollen 
with three longitudinal, deep sulci. /%st:/s numerous, in a dense cluster, separate, 
hairy ; sty/e long and slender, with a somewhat recurved summit; stigma indefinate. 
Fruit a plumose head, similar to that of Clematis; carpels 1-seeded, with long 
feathery tails, composed of the lengthened, persistent, hairy styles. Seeds sus- 
pended. 
Ranunculaceee.—This natural order is composed of herbs and woody climbers. 
* Aveyos, anemos, the wind. So named upon the supposition that the flowers of this genus only opened when the 
wind was blowing. 
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