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plant is uot so rare in the Northwest, judging from specimens received from Governor 

 McTavish, which are as follows ; — Between Severn and Trout Lake, June ; Mackenzie 

 Eiver, 29th May, 1852; Trout Lake, June; between Anderson River and Fort Good Hope ; 

 Fort Simpson, summer of 1853 ; west of Rocky Mountains, between Lapierre House and 

 Fort Yukon ; Athabasca River, 31st July, 1852 ; Yukon River ; York Factory. Lake 

 Superior, northward and westward. — Cfray. 



1. — Anemone nemoeosa, Lintueus. 



Radical leaf solitary, arising from a short, slender, horizontal rhizome, and composed 

 of three broad, cuneately lobed or slightly pinnatifid iucisely- toothed leaflets. Flower 

 solitary, on a stem which is bare below, but with an involucre half way up of three 

 stalked leaves divided like the root leaves, the leaflets incisely toothed, the lateral ones 

 with large basal lobes (more iisually divided into separate leaflets (compound) in English, 

 Scotch and German specimens, but only deeply pinnatifid in our American plant), ter- 

 minal leaflet of involucral leaf slightly stalked, all the lobes acuminate. Serials 5 or 6, 

 elliptical, glabrous on both sides (bright white, sometimes tinged with x)iuk or purple). 

 Carpels few, oblong, keeled, pubescent, with hooked beaks as long as the body of the 

 carj^el. Plant sparingly hairy. The Wood Anemone. Anemone, or Wind Flower, of the 

 English poets. 



Anemone nemorosa. Linn. Sp. Plantarum, p. 762. Flora Danica, t. 549. DC. Syst. Nat., 

 L, p. 204. Prod., I., p. 20. Continental European and English Floras. Hook., Fl. Bor.- 

 Am., I., p. 0. Torr. &Gray, Fl. N. Am., I., p. 12. Hook, f , Arct. PL, p. 283. " PI. Bourgeau, 

 254." Gray, Man., p. 38. Lawson, Ranunc. Canad., p. 21. Traill, Canad. FL, p. 81, t. 10. 

 Brewer & Watson, Bot. Calif, I., p. 4. Watson, Bibl. Index, I., p. 5. Macoun, Cat. No. 9, 



A. quinquefoUd. Linn. Sp. PL, p. *762. 



A.peduta. Raf -Schmaltz in Desv. Jour. Bot., 1808, L, p. 230. DC. Syst. Nat., I., p. 

 214. Prod., I., p. 22. 



A. lancifolia. Pursh, Fl. IL, p. 38G. DC. Syst. Nat. I., p. 205. Prod. I., p. 20. Torrey, 

 Compend., p. 223. 



A. minima, DC. Syst. Nat., I., p. 206, appears to be a diminutive form of this species 

 from the Alleghanies. 



\lv£/uGûvtj XeijAcovia. Theophrast. Hist., lib. 6, c. 1 ; lib. T, c. 8, ex. Spreng. Hist. Rei. 

 Herb., I., p. 94.-DC. 



Canada, and thence to the south end of Lake Winnipeg ; uot seen to the north of lat. 

 53°. — Richardson. Country to the eastward of the Rocky Mountains. — Drmnmond. Westward 

 of the Rocky Mountains. — Douglas. Woods in rear of Kingston, also neighbourhood of 

 Toronto, and other localities in Ontario, ocicasional, but not common. — Laivson. Common, 

 Port St. Francis, Q., Niagara and Maiden, Ont. — Dr. P. W. Madagan. Barlow's woods 

 east from Belleville, Ont. — Macoun. Gros Cap, June 15. — Prof. Bell. Gaspé ; Dunvegan 

 (lat. 56°), on Peace River; British Columbia; Vancouver Island. — Macoun. Dean or Salmon 

 River, British Columbia. — Dr. G. M. Dawson. Not uncommon in New Brunswick. — Foivter, 

 who has sent a specimen from Bass River, Kent. Commoir at the Saguenav.— Prot^aw/ter. 



