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RANUNCULACEJE. (CROWFOOT FAMILY.) 
er-banks, &c., conynon ; climbing over shrubs; flowering in July and 
August. The axillary peduncles bear clusters of numerous white 
flowers (sepals obovate, spreading), which are polygamous or dioe¬ 
cious ; the fertile are succeeded in autumn by the conspicuous feath¬ 
ery tails of the fruit. 
Tribe II. ANEMONEiE. The Anemone Tribe. 
3* PULSATILLA, Tourn. Pasque-flower. 
Sepals 4-6, colored. Petals none, or like abortive gland-like 
stamens. Achenia with long feathery tails. Otherwise as 
Anemone. (Derivation obscure. The popular name was given 
because the plant is in blossom at Easter.) 
1. I*. p:\teilS, Mill. Silky with long soft hairs, dwarf; radi¬ 
cal leaves 3-parted; the divisions wedge-shaped, 3-cleft and cut, 
their lobes linear-lanceolate; involucre cut to the base into many 
narrow equal divisions; flower erect, dull purple. — Prairies, Wiscon¬ 
sin, Lapham. March, April; flowering before the leaves appear. 
Sepals V or more long. Tails of the fruit 21 long. 
4. ANEMONE, L. Anemone. Wind-flower. 
Sepals 5-15, petal-like. Petals none. Achenia without tails. — 
Perennial herbs with radical leaves; those of the stem 2 - 3 to¬ 
gether, and forming an involucre at the base of the flower-stalks. 
(Deriv. from avcpos, the wind , because the flower was thought to 
open only when the wind blows. Plin. Nat. Hist., 21, § 94.) 
^ * Stem-haves (involucre) stalked. 
1. A. ncmorosa, L. (Wind-flower. Wood Anemone.) 
Low, smooth; stem perfectly simple; flower single on a naked pe¬ 
duncle ; leaves of the involucre 3, long-petioled, 3-divided, toothed 
and cut; the lateral ones often (var. quinquefolia) 2-parted ; sepals 
4 - 6, oval, white, sometimes tinged with purple outside; carpels 
few. — Margin of woods, April, May. — A delicate and pretty vernal 
species, the spreading flower 1' broad. Carpels only 15 or 20, ob¬ 
long, with a hooked beak. 
2. A. cylindrica, Gray. (Long-fruited Anemone.) Slen¬ 
der, clothed with silky hairs; flowers 2-6 on very long and upright 
naked peduncles ; leaves of the involucre thrice or twice as many as 
the flower-stalks, 3-divided; their divisions wedge-shaped, the lateral 
2-parted, the middle one 3-cleft; lobes cut and toothed at the apex; 
sepals 5, obtuse , silky outside, gTeenish-white; head of fruit cylin¬ 
drical. — Sandy or dry woods, Massachusetts to Michigan. May. 
— Plant l°-2° high. Peduncles 7'-12' long, all appearing together 
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