4 It ANL'NCULACK.i:. (CUOWFOOT FAMILY.) 



arilolm, DC, nn early state, when all the leaflets arc linear.) — Swamps and 

 banks of rivers. M:iy and June. — Stems 2° - 4° hiyh, somewhat sinubby at 

 the base. Flowers 1'- 1^' long, pale blui.-li-j)uii)k'. 



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

 entire or 2 - ."j-lobed, obtuse or iimi roiiate, eoriaeeous, strongly retieulated ; calyx 

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

 the stamens ; tails of the aehenia (1^' long) slender, plumose. — Dry sandy soil, 

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



* * Flowers jxtnicled : calijx thiti, spreading, irliile: siciiis woodi/. 



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

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

 dig'cious or polygamons ; sepals obovate, snioothish ; tails of the aehenia long, 

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



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

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

 divaiieate, opposite, 3 - 5-flowcred ; flowers dia'ciou s ; sepals oblong, hoary ; 

 tails of the aehenia plumose. — Dry sandy soil, near the coast, Flori<la 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-lancoolatc, entire ; flowers diceciou s, in paniculate corymbs ; sepals lin- 

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

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



3. ANEMONE, L. Wind-flower. 



Sepals 4 -20, colored, imbricated in the bud, deciduous. I'etals none. Sta- 

 mens indefinite. Filaments liliform. Ovaries mimcrous. Ovule solitary. 

 Aehenia cajjitate, 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 wliorkd and divided leaves, which 

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



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

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

 lanceolate, lobed and toothed, longer than the peduncle ; sepals 4-6, oval, white ; 

 aehenia 1.5-20, pointed by the booked ))ersistent style. — Open woods along 

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

 leaf solitary. 



2. A. Caroliniana, W.ilt. (Carolina Anemone.) Stem slender, 

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

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

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

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

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



