4 RANUNCULACEJ. (CROWFOOT FAMILY.) 
ariloba, DC., an early state, when all the leaflets are linear.) — Swamps and 
banks of rivers. May and June. — Stems 29 — 49 high, somewhat shrubby at 
the base. Flowers 1'— 13! long, pale bluish-purple. 
€. C. reticulata, Walt. Smooth; leaves pinnate; leaflets 7 -9, oval, 
entire or 2 - 3-lobed, obtuse or mucronate, coriaceous, strongly reticulated ; calyx 
ovate ; sepals ovate-lanceolate, with spreading tips, not margined, longer than 
the stamens ; tails of the achenia (1}/ long) slender, plumose. — Dry sandy soil, 
Florida to South Carolina. May - July. — Calyx downy, dull purple. 
* * Flowers panicled : calyx thin, spreading, white: stems woody. 
7. C. Virginiana, L. Smooth; leaves ternate ; leaflets ovate or cordate- 
ovate, lobed or toothed; panicle trichotomous, many-flowered, leafy ; flowers 
dicecious or polygamous ; sepals obovate, smoothish ; tails of the achenia long, 
plumose. — Swamps and meadows. July. — Leaflets 2' 3! long. 
8. C. Catesbyana, Pursh. Pubescent; leaves biternate ; leaflets ovate, 
mostly cordate, 3-toothed or lobed ; panicle leafy, many-flowered, the branches 
divaricate, opposite, 3—5-flowered ; flowers diccious ; sepals oblong, hoary ; 
tails of the achenia plumose. — Dry sandy soil, near the coast, Florida to South 
Carolina, and westward. July.— Stem climbing high. Leaves and flowers 
smaller than the last. 
9. C. holosericea, Pursh.  Silky-pubescent; leaves ternate; leaflets 
oblong-lanceolate, entire ; flowers dicecious, in paniculate corymbs ; sepals lin- 
ear, longer than the stamens ; tails of the achenia very long, plumose. — South 
Carolina, Walter. — Flowers small, white. (*) 
|. . 8. ANEMONE, L. WIND-FLOWER. 
Sepals 4-20, colored, imbricated in the bud, deciduous. Petals none. Sta- 
mens indefinite. Filaments filiform. Ovaries numerous. Ovule solitary. 
Achenia capitate, compressed, pointed by the short, naked or woolly, straight 
or hooked, persistent style. Seed suspended. — Perennial herbs, with naked 
stems, bearing at the summit 2-3 opposite or whorled and divided leaves, which 
form an involucre remote from the flower. Radical leaves lobed or divided. 
1. A. nemorosa, L. (Woop ANEMONE.) Smooth or pubescent ; stem 
1-flowered ; leaves of the involucre 3, long-petioled, 3-parted, the divisions ovate- 
lanceolate, lobed and toothed, longer than the peduncle ; sepals 4 — 6, oval, white ; 
achenia 15-20, pointed by the hooked persistent style. — Open woods along 
the mountains and northward. March - April. — Stems 4!— 6/ high. Radical 
leaf solitary. - : | 
2. A. Caroliniana, Walt. (Canoriwa ANEMONE.) Stem slender, 
1-flowered ; peduncle many times longer than the small, sessile, 3-leaved, 
3-toothed involucre ; radical leaves 2— 3, long-petioled, ternate, deeply parted, 
lobed and toothed ; sepals 14-20, oblong, white; achenia numerous in a cylin. 
‘Arical-oblong head, woolly. — North Carolina and westward. M tem 
