RANUNCULACEAX. (CROWFOOT FAMILY.) 5 
3. A. Virginiana, L. (VIRGINIA ANEMONE.) Stem hairy or woolly, 
at length many-flowered ; peduncles elongated, the earliest one simple ; lateral 
` ones several times forking, and bearing a 2-leaved involucre and a single flower 
at each joint; proper involucre 3-leaved, the leaves long-petioled, 3-parted, with 
ovate or oblong lobed and toothed divisions; sepals 5, oval, greenish, acute ; 
achenia numerous, in an oblong head, woolly. — Open woods in the upper dis- 
tricts, and northward. July-September. — Plant 29-39 high. Flower 8"- 9" 
in diameter. Radical leaves 3 - 4, similar to the involucre. 
4. HEPATICA, Dill. LIVER-LEAF. 
Flowers and fruit as Anemone. Involucre close to the flower, 3-leaved, resem- 
bling a calyx; its leaves sessile, ovate, entire. — A low, perennial herb, with 
scape-like, 1-flowered aud and 3-lobed, long-petioled, cordate, persistent, radi- 
cal leaves. 
1. H. triloba, Chaix. Lobes of the leaves rounded, entire; stems hairy ; 
flowers purplish or white; achenia oblong, hairy. — Shady woods, Florida and 
northward. February - March. — Stems 3' - 6 high. 
B. THALICTRUM, Tourn Mzapow-Rvr. 
Sepals 4 - 10, imbricated in the bud, colored, spreading, deciduous. Petals 
none. Stamens numerous. Filaments filiform, clavate ‘or flattened. Ovaries 
3-15, Lovuled.  Achenia sessile or stalked, irrow ed or inflated, pointed by the 
sessile persistent stigma or short style. Seed suspended. — Perennial herbs. 
Leaves compound. 
* Flowers polygamous or diæcious: sepals shorter than the stamens : stigma elon- 
gated : achenia nearly sessile, ribbed: leaves alternate, decompound : involucre 
none: flowers small, panicled. 
1. T. dioicum, L. Stems erect; leaves long-petioled; leaflets thin, 
roundish, crenately 5—7-lobed, smooth; flowers numerous; sepals greenish ; 
stamens and stigma filiform; achenia sessile, or (in var. STIPITATUM, Torr. § 
Gray) distinctly stalked. (T. rugosum & T. Carolinianum, DC.) — Mountains 
of North Carolina and northward. July - August. — Stem 19 - 13? high. 
2. T. debile, Buckl. Stems low (8/ - 12’), procumbent or ascending, much 
branched ; leaves long-petioled ; leaflets small, stalked, rounded, crenately lobed, 
smooth ; dowa few on axillary or terminal peduncles ; achenia oblong, strongly 
ribbed, short-stalked, as long as the slender style. — Rich woods, near Allenton, 
Wilcox County, Alabama (Buckley). March and April. — Stems branching at 
the base, slender. 
3. T. Cornuti, L. Radical leaves long-petioled ; stem-leaves sessile (the 
common petiole wanting) ; leaflets thick, oval or oblong, 3-lobed or entire, often | 
cordate, smooth, or pubescent beneath ; ‘sepals white ; stamens and stigma slightly 
clavate ; achenia short-stalked. (T. revolutum, DC.) — Meadows an 
