4 RANUNCULACE^. (CROWFOOT P^AMILY.) 



ariloba, DC, an early state, when all the leaflets are linear.) — Swamps and 

 banks of rivers. May and June. — Stems 2° - 4° high, somewhat shrubby at 

 the base. Flowers 1'- 1 j' long, pale bluish-purple. 



6. C. reticulata, Walt. Smooth; leaves pinnate; leaflets 7-9, oval, 

 entire or 2 -3-lobed, obtuse or mueronate, coriaceous, strongly reticulated ; calyx 

 ovate ; sepals ovate-lanceolate, with spreading tips, not margined, longer than 

 the stamens ; tails of the achenia (Ij' long) slender, plumose. — Dry sandy soil, 

 Florida to South Carolina. May- July. — Calyx downy, dull purple. 



* * Flowers panicled : calyx thm, spreading, white: stems woodi/. 



7. C. Virginiana, L. Smooth; leaves ternate ; leaflets ovate or cordate- 

 ovate, lobed or toothed; panicle trichotomous, many-flowered, leafy; flowers 

 dia'cious 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 bitemate ; leaflets ovate, 

 mostly cordate, 3-toothed or lobed ; panicle leafy, many-flowered, the branches 

 divaricate, opposite, 3 - 5-flowered ; flowers dioecious ; 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-lanccolatc, entire ; flowers dioecious, in paniculate corymbs ; sepals lin- 

 ear, longer than the stamens ; tails of the achenia very long, plumose. — South 

 Carolina, Walter. — Flowers small, white. ( * ) 



3. ANEMONE, L. Wind-flower. 



Sepals 4-20, colored, imbricated in the bud, deciduous. Petals none. Sta- 

 mens indefinite. Filaments filiform. Ovaries numerous. Ovule solitary. 

 Aciienia 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 orwhorled and divided leaves, which 

 form an involucre remote from the flower. Radical leaves lobed or divided. 



1. A. nemorosa, L. (Wood Anemone.) Smootli or jmbesccnt ; stem 

 1-flowered ; leaves of the involucre 3, long-petioled, 3-partcd, the divisions ovate- 

 lanceolate, lobed and toothed, longer than the peduncle ; sepals 4 - G, oval, white ; 

 achenia 1.5-20, pointed by the hooked j)ersistcnt style. — Open woods along 

 the mountains and northward. March -April. — Stems 4'- C high. Radical 

 leaf solitary. 



2. A. Caroliniana, Walt. (Carolina Anemone.) Stem slender, 

 1-flowered ; peduncle many times longer than the small, sessile, 3-leaved, 

 3-toothed involucre; radical leaves 2-3, long-petioled, temate, deeply parted, 

 lobed and toothed ; sepals 14-20, oblong, white ; achenia numerous in a cylin- 

 drical-oblong head, woolly. — North Carolina and westward. March. — Stems 

 6'- 12' high. Flowers 1' in diameter. 



