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Anemone acutilobn. Lawson, Kanuuc danad., p. 80. Watson, Bibl. Index, I., ]i. 3. 

 Macoun, Cat., No. 18. 



Hepatica triloba var. acuta. Pursh, Fl., p. 391. Hook., Fl. Bor.-Am., I., p. 18. Torr. & 

 Gr., Fl. N. A., I., p. 15. 



H. tribola (i-foliornm segmentis aculis. Hook., Fl. Bor.-Am., I., p. 9. 



H triloba ft. acuta. Torr. & G-r., Fl. N. A., I., p. U. 



H. acutiloba. DC. Prod., I., p. 22. Gray, Geu., I., p. 22, t. 5. Manual, p. 38. 



Anemone Hepatica var. acuta. Bigel., Fl. Bost. ed. I., p. 135. 



This is essentially an Ontarian and Northern States species, being- scarce in the South 

 and West and quite unknown in Europe. 



Long'poiut, Ganauoque River, May '7, 1861, abundant ; near King'ston Railway Dejiot, 

 2nd May, 1868 ; two miles west from Kingston Mills, 24th May, 1859. — Lair.ton. Camden. — 

 Dr. Dupuis. Prescott, Ottawa, etc, common in woods. — B. Billings jr. Very abxindant in 

 dry woods, Belleville. — Macoun. Artemisia, May 12. — Rev. C. I. Cameron. Point Levis, 

 P.Q. — Brunei. Common around Montreal ; abundant about Ottawa. — Macoun. Northum- 

 berland Co., Ont.— Macoun. 



The Hepatica group of Anemone [A. Hepatica and A. aculiloba) is connected with the 

 other species of the genus, such as A. nemorosa, through A. angulosa, of Transylvania 

 DC. Syst. I., p. 21*7), figured in " Gartenflora," t. 419, which has a calyx-like involucre 

 like the true Hepaticas, and in foliage and flowers resembles A. Apennina. A. angulosa 

 has an approximate involucre of three leaves much smaller than the sepals, which are 

 from 6 to 9 in number as in the Hepaticas, that is, there are two or three whorls. 



3. — Anemone patens-s, Linnaus. 



Whole plant covered with long silky hairs when young, losing much of the hairiness 

 as the parts mature. Leaves radical, from a strong root-stock, long-petioled, ternately 

 diAnded into narrow linear segments. Scape l-llowered. Flower large, appearing before 

 the leaves, iuA'olucre sessile, like the leaves, becoming distant from the flower by the elon- 

 gation of the upper part of the stalk. Sepals 5 (or more), large, externally velvety with 

 short hairs. Carpels with long phimose tails. Flowers (sepals) purplish, or of violet shades, 

 sometimes very pale. Petals are represented by a few very small processes like abortive- 

 stamens. Stamens numerous. The involucre, and that portion of the flower-stalk below 

 it, are densely villous, with long silky hairs ; the upper portion of the stalk, which is very 

 short at first, becomes much elongated in fruit, and scarcely villous or nearly glabrous. 

 The flower of the Siberian plant is white, according to Linnanrs. A small form from Fort 

 Simpson, summer of 1853, {McTavish) has the involucre divided into linear, but rath(n- 

 broad, segments, very sparingly villous, and the sepals are almost glabrous. 



Anemone patens. Linn., Sp. PI., ed. 3, p. 759. DC. Syst. Nat., I., p. 191. Regel, Fl. Ost.- 

 Sib., I., p. 20. Hook., Fl. Bor. Am., I., p. 4. Torr. & Gr., Fl., I., p. 11. Gray, Manual, ed. 

 1, p. 5. Rothr., Fl. Alaska, p. 442. Provancher, Fl. Canad., p. 6. Hook, f., Arctic PI., p. 

 283. 



Clematis hirsutissima. Pursh, FL, IL, p. 385. DC. Syst. Nat., I., p. 155. 



A. Ludovidana. Nutt., Gen., II, p. 20. 



