WET MEADOWS AND LOW GROUNDS 



I. Tall Meadow-rue 



Thalicirum polygamum. — Family, Crowfoot. Color, white. 

 Leaves, ternately compound, the leaflets being fine, small, 

 rounded or lobed, oblong and stalked. Time, July to Septem- 

 ber. 



Flowers in compound panicles. Petals, none. Sepals, white. 

 The stamens and pistils are borne on different plants. The 

 staminate flowers are the prettier, in compound panicles, loose 

 and feathery, with white filaments, thicker towards the top. 

 The pistillate flowers are smaller, more compact, and greener, 



A plant lovely both in its soft feathery blossoms and its deli- 

 cate foliage, growing tall, sometimes 8 feet. It masses beauti- 

 fully with clumps of wild roses wherever the soil is wet and 

 springy. My own observation indicates that the plants bearing 

 staminate flowers are much more common than those bearing 

 pistillate. I have often failed to find one of the latter among 

 many of the former. 



2. Cursed Crowfoot 



RanHnculus sce/eratus. — Family, Crowfoot. Color, pale, 

 greenish yellow. Leaves, thickish ; those from the root round- 

 ed, 3-lobed, on petioles ; those of the lower stem 3-divided, 

 the roundish lobes irregularly cut; those above with long and 

 narrpw uncut lobes, sessile. Time, summer. 



