4 K.YNCXCLI.ACK.K. (CROWFOOT FAMILY.) 



Briloba, 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 l'-li' 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 (\V long) slender, plumose* — Dry sandy soil, 

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



* * Flowers panicled : calyx thin, spreading, white: stems woody. 



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

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

 dioecious or polygamous ; sepals obovate, Bmoothish ; tails of the achenia long, 

 plumose. — Swamps and meadows. July. — Leaflets 2' -3' long. 



8. C. Catesbyana, Pursh. Pubescent ; leaves bitcrnate ; leaflets ovate, 

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

 divaricate, opposite, 3 - 5-flowcred ; flowers dioecious; sepals oblong, hoary; 

 tails of the achenia plumose. — ])ry 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 termite ; leaflets 

 oblong-lanceolate, 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-floweb. 



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

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

 Achenia capitate, compressed, pointed by the short, naked or woolly, Btraight 

 or booked, persistent style. Seed suspended. — Perennial herbs, with naked 

 stems, bearing at the summit 2-3 opposite or whorled and divided leaves, which 

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



1. A. nemorosa, L. (Wood Anemone.) Smooth or pubescent \ stem 

 L-flowered ; have- of the involucre 3, long-petioled, 3-parted, the divisions ovate- 

 lanceolate, lobed and toothed, longer than the peduncle : sepals i - 6, oval, white ; 

 achenia 15-20, pointed by the booked persistent style. — Open woods along 

 the mountains and northward. March-April. — Stems 4'-6' high. Radical 



litary. 



2. A. Caroliniana, Walt. (Carolina Anemone.) Stem -lender. 

 l-flowered; peduncle many times longer than tin' small, sessile, S-leavcd, 

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

 lobed ami toothed ; sepals I i -'<». oblong, white; achenia numerous in a cylin- 

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



6'- 12' high. Blowers I ' in diameter. 



