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Anemone rivularis Hamilton ; F.B.I, i 9, III 10, 

 common wild Anemone : a perennial herb with well- 

 branched stem ; leaves divided into three, and those of 

 the flowering stems into narrow-toothed segments; and 

 Jarge white flowers. 



Rootstock stout, vertical, clothed at the top by the 

 fibrous remains of the leaf-bases. Radical leaf-stalk 

 2 to 12 inches long : blades three-partite, the segments 

 again cut deeply into three wedge-shaped parts, and 

 these again deeply cut or toothed ; very softly hairy on 

 both sides ; the lowest sometimes several inches across. 

 Flowers terminating stalks of 5 to 8 inches in loose few- 

 flowered cymes : lower bracts deeply, pinnately, cut into 

 three segments which are again deeply lobed and serrate ; 

 upper bracts simpler but usually three-lobed. Flowers 

 I to l^ inches white with purplish tinge on the back. 

 Sepals five or six, obovate oblong. No petals. Stamens 

 numerous. Carpels with short-hooked style, in fruit J4 

 to Vz inch, each with one seed. t. 2. Wight Sp. Nilg. 

 t. 4, Ic. t. 936. (A. wightiana.) 



Everywhere on the upper levels, luxuriant in damp places, 

 dwarfed in dry. Nilgiris all over the plateau. Pulneys in and 

 above Kodaikanal. Fpo7t 280, 1339, 1425. Bourne 13. 



Gen. Disi. Higher mountains of India 5,000 to 13,000 feet on the 

 Sikkim Himalayas and 16,000 at Samlung (J.D H. leaves nearly glabrous !). 

 In North Indian specimens the segments of the bracts are often broader, 

 and near Simla is a form with umbelled flowers! 



THALICTRUM. f.b.i. i iv. 



Meadow Rule, etc. 



Herbs with perennial rootstock, ternately multi- 

 compound leaves, and racemes or panicles of yellow, 

 purple, or white flowers, usually small but with numerous 

 conspicuous stamens, numerous one-ovuled carpels ripen- 

 ing into ribbed achenes, imbricate sepals, and no petals. 



