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purple: outer stamens sterile and enlarged to narrow spatulate petals. — 

 In mountains from near Cape Mendocino northward and eastward. 

 * * Petals 0; our species dioecious. — Olematitis proper. 



2. C. lasiautha, Nutt.; T. & G. Fl. i. 9 (1838). Silky-piibescent 

 throughout, even to the outside of the sepals: leaflets 3, ovate, somewhat 

 cuneate at base, coarsely toothed or 3-lobed or -parted: fl. large, solitary, 

 erect on 1- '2-bracted peduncles; sepals white, ^4 in. long.— In the hilly 

 districts, trailing over rocks and shrubs; the flowers often several at each 

 node of the stem, but the peduncles 1-flowered. Apr. 



3. C. lignsticifolia, Nutt. 1. c. Leaves glabrous throughout, or 

 somewhat pubescent, in our district silky-tomentose beneath: stems 

 elongated, often climbing small trees to the height of 30 ft.: leaves 

 5-foliolate; leaflets broadly ovate to lanceolate, usually 3-lobed: fl. 

 panicled in the axils; sepals scarcely i/^ in. long.— In middle Calif, less 

 frequent than the last, but rather common in the Mt. Diablo Range, also 

 occasional in Marin Co.; most showy in autumn, when laden with its 

 abundant heads of white feathery-tailed achenes. Fl. July. 



2. ANEMONE, Dioscorides (Wind Flowek). Perennial herbs with 

 radical lobed or divided leaves, and a cauline involucral whorl of about 

 three, or these more or less united. Flowers 1 to several, on erect 

 peduncles. Sepals 5 or more, petaloid, imbricate in bud. Petals 0. 

 Stamens and pistils qo . Fruit a head of compressed pointed (in some 

 species feathery-tailed) achenes. 

 * Styles long, in fruit hecuming plumose tails. — Old genus Pulsatilla. 



1. A. occidentalis, Wats. Proc. Am. Acad. xi. 121 (1876;): A. alpiua, 

 Hook. Fl. i. 5, not Linn. Stems clustered, stout, }4,—^% f*- high, 

 1-flowered: plant more or less villous: radical leaves long-petioled, 

 biternate, the divisions pinnate, the lateral ones subsessile; the segments 

 pinnatifid with narrow laciniate-toothed lobes: involucral leaves similar, 

 subsessile about midway of the stem: sepals 6 or 7, %—% in. long, pale 

 bluish-purple: head of achenes globose, the silky tails 1 in. long or 

 more.- Dry ridges, at high altitudes, on Lassen's Peak; doubtless also 

 in the Trinity Mts., and far northward. July, Aug. 



* * Achenes not plumose-tailed. — Anemone proper. 



2. A. Druinmondii, Wats. Bot. Calif, ii. 424 (1880): .1. multifidn, B. 

 & W. Bot. Calif, i. 4, not Poir.: A. Baldensis, Hook. Fl. i. 15, not Linn. 

 More or less villous, 3—10 in. high, 1— 3-flowered: radical leaves rounded 

 and ternately multifid, on petioles of 1—3 in.; the involucral similar, 

 subsessile: sepals .5— 8, white, 4—6 lines long: achenes oblong, 2 lines 

 long, densely woolly, in an ovate head. — Habitat of the preceding, but in 

 moister ground near snow. Aug., Sept. 



