6 RANUNCULACEiE. (crowfoot family.) 
from the same involucre, and naked throughout, or sometimes part of 
them with involucels, as in No. 3. Head of fruit dense, 1' long: 
achenia very woolly, as also in the two succeeding species. 
3* A. Tirgiiiiaua, L. (Tall Anemone.) Hairy; principal 
involucre 3-leaved ; the leaves long, petioled, 3-parted ; the divis¬ 
ions ovate-lanceolate , pointed, cut-serrate, the lateral 2-parted, the 
middle 3-cleft; peduncles elongated, the earliest naked, the others 
with a 2-leaved involucel at the middle ; sepals 5, acute , greenish (in 
one variety white and obtuse), silky beneath; head of fruit oral or 
oblong. — Woods and meadows, common. June-August. — 
2°-3° high ; the upright peduncles 6'-12' long. In this and the two 
following species the first flower-stalk is leafless ; but from the same 
involucre soon proceed one or two lateral ones, which are 2-leaved 
at the middle; these partial involucres in turn giving rise to similar 
peduncles, thus producing a succession of flowers through the w hole 
summer. 
4. A. multifiria, DC. (Many-cleft Anemone.) Low* 
silky-hairy; principal involucre 2- 3-leaved, bearing one naked and 
one or two 2-leaved peduncles; leaves of the involucres on short peti¬ 
oles, similar to the root-leaves, twice or thrice 3-parted and cleft, 
their divisions linear; sepals 5-8, obtuse, red, sometimes greenish- 
yellow; head of fruit spherical or oval. — Rocks, Vermont and N. 
New York, L. Superior, &c., rare. June. —Plant 6'-12' high; se¬ 
pals long. 
* * Leaves of the stem and branches (involucre and involucels) sessile 
5. A. Pennsylvanica, L. (Pennsylvanian Anemone) 
Principal involucre 3-leaved, bearing a naked peduncle, and soon a 
pair of branches or peduncles with a 2-leaved involucre at the middle, 
which branch similarly in turn ; leaves broadly wedge-shaped, 3-oleft* 
cut and toothed; root-leaves 5-7-parted or cleft; sepals oborate , white) 
head of fruit spherical; the carpels flat, hairy. — W. New Engl- to 
Ohio and Wisconsin. June - Aug. — Plant rather hairy, & high 
w hen it begins to blossom, but continuing to produce branches, eaC 
terminated by a naked peduncle, through the summer; flowers U 
broad, handsome. 
HEPATICA, Dill. Liver-leaf. Hepatica. 
Involucre simple and 3-leaved, very close to the flower, so as » 
resemble a calyx; otherwise as in Anemone. — Leaves all radical* 
heart-shaped and 3-lobed, thickish and persistent through the year* 
the new ones appearing later than the flowers. Flowers single, on 
hairy scapes. (Name from a fancied resemblance of the leases 
in shape to the liver.) 
