4 RANUNCULACE^. (CROAVFOOT FAMILY.) 



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^' long, pale bluish-purple. 



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

 entire or 2 -3-lobcd, obtuse or mucronate, coriaceous, stroiij,'ly reticulated ; calyx 

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

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

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



* * Flowers panicled : cahjx thin, spreading, ivhite: stems woodi/. 



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

 ovate, lobcd or tootlicd ; panicle tricliotomous, 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-toothcd or lobcd ; panicle leafy, many-flowered, the branches 

 divaricate, opposite, 3-5-flowered; flowers dia-cious ; 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 temate ; leaflets 

 oblong-lanccol:itc, entire ; flowers dicucious, in paniculate corymbs ; sepals lin- 

 ear, longer tlian 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 tlie 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 wliorlcd and divided leaves, which 

 form an involucre remote from tiic flower. Radical leaves lobcd or divided. 



1. A. ncmorosa, L. (Wood Axemonk.) Smooth or ))u1)csccnt ; stem 

 1 -flowered ; leaves of the involucre 3, long-pctiolcd, 3-partcd, tlie divisions ovatc- 

 lanccolate, lobcd and toothed, longer than the peduncle ; scjials 4 - C, oval, white ; 

 achenia 15-20, ))oinlcd iiy the liookcd persistent style. — ()j)cn woods along 

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

 leaf .'•olitary. 



2. A. Caroliniana, "Walt. (Cahomna Axemone.) Stem slender, 

 1-flowcrcd ; p((lim(le niiiny times lon^jer than the small, sessile, 3-lcaved, 

 3-toollicd invohure ; riulical leaves 2-3, long-jiclioled, tcrnate, deeply parted, 

 lobcd and tootlicd ; scpaK 14-20, oblong, while ; achenia numerous in a cylin- 

 drical-olilong hcjid, woolly. — North Carolina and westward. March. — Stems 

 6'- 12' lii"h. Flowers 1' in diameter. 



