6 RANUNCULACEJ. (CROWFOOT FAMILY.) 
* Flowers perfect: sepals longer than the stamens: stigma short: achenia raised 
on u stipe, inflated, veiny : leaves ternate or biternate, alternate: flowers Sew, 
4. T. clavatum, DC. Stems slender, sparingly branched, naked below; 
leaves petioled, biternate ; leaflets thin, rounded, crenately lobed, glaucous be- 
neath; panicle corymbose, few~many-flowered ; flowers small, white; achenia 
5-10, somewhat crescent-shaped, short-pointed, long-stalked. — Mountains of 
North Carolina to Alabama. July. — Stems 19 — 29 high. 
5. T. nudicaule, Schweinitz. Stem slender, naked below, sparingly 
branched above ; radical leaf solitary, long-petioled, biternate ; stem-leaves very 
small, ternate ; leaflets thin, roundish, obtusely lobed, slightly cordate ; panicle 
4-8-flowered ; flowers minute, greenish ; ovaries short-stalked. — Banks of the 
Yadkin River, North Carolina. — Stem 29 high. (+) 
* * * Flowers perfect: sepals longer than the stamens: stigma depressed» achenia 
sessile, ribbed : stem-leaves whorled : flowers umbelled. Peg: 
6. T. anemonoides, Michx. Radical leaves biternate, long-petioled ; 
leaflets oval or roundish, cordate, 3 — 5-lobed ; stem-leaves 2 — 3, sessile, ternate ; 
the long-stalked leaflets forming an involucre apparently of 6-9 simple leaves ; 
umbel 3 -6-flowered ; sepals 6-10, white. — Woods, Florida to Mississippi, 
and northward. April and May. — Root tuberous. Stems 6! - 10! high. Flow- 
ers ' - 3’ in diameter. : 
6. TRAUTVETTERIA, Fisch. & Mey. 
Sepals 3 - 5, orbicular, imbricated in the bud, colored, caducous. Petals none. 
Stamens indefinite ; filaments clavate, Ovaries numerous, l-ovuled. Stigma 
recurved. Achenia capitate, gibbous, 4-sided, beaked by the hooked persistent 
stigma. Seed erect.— Erect, perennial herbs, with alternate, palmately-lobed 
leaves, and corymbose flowers. " 
1. T. palmata, Fisch. & Mey. Smooth; stem (29 — 4o high) simple or 
sparingly branched above ; leaves uniform, reticulate, divided into 5-9 lanceo- 
late, toothed and serrate lobes ; those of the root broad (4! - 6^), long-petioled ; 
corymb many-flowered. — Margins of mountain streams, Georgia, Tennessee, 
and northward. 
T, MYOSURUS, L. Movsr-rair. 
‘Sepals 5-7, imbricated in the bud, spurred at the base. Petals 5-7, linear- 
spatulate. Stamens 5-20: filaments filiform. Ovaries numerous, l-ovuled, 
orm, elongated recep- 
Style subulate. Achenia 3-angled, imbricated on the filif 
tacle. Seed suspended. — Small annuals, with linear radical Sici ind mali. 
solitary, yellowish flowers, on a naked scape. — p ue ' 
. beakless.— Augusta, Georgia (Elliott), and westward, April. 
linear, 1' - 2! long. B d Beer orum 
