Anemone. RANUNCULACE^. 9 



var. Ochotensis, Gray, Am. Jour. Sci. ser. 2, xxxiii. 241. Clematis Pseudo-Atracjene, Kuntze, 



1. c. 160, with some of C. alpina also. — Rocky Mouutaius, from New Mexico to Dakota and 

 Washington. 



Var. tenuiloba, Gray. Apparently very low : leaflets dissected into narrow lanceo- 

 late divisions and lobes : otherwise as in the ordinary Am. plant. — Gray in Powell, Geol. 

 Surv. Rep. Dakota (1880), 531, as subvar. — Black Hills of Dakota, Jenneij^ 



2. ANEM6NE, Tourn. Anemone, Anemony, Wind-flower. (The 

 ancient Greek and Latin name, from dve^o'w, to be blown upon or shaken by the 

 wind.) — Perennial herbs of the cooler parts of the world, mostly low, and 

 showy flowered. — DC. Syst. i. 188. ^ Anemone & Pulsatilla, Tourn. Inst. 275, 

 284, t. 147, 148. L. Gen. nos. 458, 459. 



§ 1. Pulsatilla, Tourn. (as genus). Carpels with long filiform styles, very 

 villous, becoming plumose tails to the akenes : flower large, solitary on a scape 

 bearing a whorled involucre. — Inst. 284, t. 148 ; Gray, Gen. 111. i. 17. §§ Pulsa- 

 tilla & Preonanthus, DC. Prodr. i. 16, 17. 



* Involucre wholly sessile and mostly connate at base by the union of its three simply 

 palmately multifid reduced leaves : a few small spatulate staminodes outside of the true 

 stamens. — § Pulsatilla, DC, &c. 



A. patens, L. Soft-villous, glabrate in Jige : scapiform stem a .span high and in fruit much 

 taller : flower erect : sepals 5 to 7, violet, sometimes whitisli, widely spreading in sunshine : 

 mature carpel-tails inch and a half long : involucre connate at base, parted into numerous 

 narrowly linear lobes : radical leaves developed a little later than tiie flower, palmately 

 3-foliolate, with the divisions 3-parted and commonly again 3-cleft into lanceolate lobes. — 

 Spec. i. 538 ; DC. Syst. i. 191 ; Sims, Bot. Mag. t. 1994 (var. ochroleuca). Pulsatilla patens. 

 Mill. Diet. ed. 8 ; Reichcnb. Ic. Fl. Germ. iv. t. 57. (Eu., N. Asia.) 



Var. Nuttalliana, Gray. Lobes of the leaves linear or nearly so : flower mostly 

 pale. — Man. ed. 5, 36; Meehan, Native Flowers, ser. 1, i. t. 13. A. jmtens, Hook. Fl. Bor.- 

 Am. i. 4 ; Torr. & Gray, Fl. i. 11, &c. .1. Ludociciana, Nutt. Gen. ii. 20. A. Nuttallii, DC. 

 Syst. i. 193 ; Nutt. Journ. Acad. Philad. v. t. 8. Pulsatilla Nuttalliana, Spreng. Syst. ii. 663 ; 

 Gray, Man. ed. 2, 4. P. patens, Gray, Gen. 111. i. 18, t. 3. P. patens, var. Wol/j/angiana, 

 Regal, Bull. Soc. Nat. Mosc. xxxiv. 1 861 , pt. 2, 21 . Clematis hirsntissima, Pursh, Fl. ii. 385.^ — 

 Prairies and plains, Illinois and Missouri to Colorado, Montana, and north to the Arctic 

 Circle; fl. early spring. (N.Asia.) 



* * Involucre of two or three compound more or less petiolate and petiolulate leaves : no 

 staminodes : sepals tliin, brightly colored, widely spreading. — § Preonanthus, DC. 

 Prodr. i. 17. 



A. OCCidentalis, Watson. From a span or two becoming 2 feet high, soft-villous, in age 

 glaljrate : radical and involucral leaves biternately compound and the divisions once or twice 

 pinnately cleft into narrowly lanceolate or linear lobes : sepals 6 or 7, oval, white or purplish, 

 often inch long: receptacle oblong-conical, becoming cylindrical (an inch or more long) 

 in fruit: carpel-tails often inch and a half long, at length recurved. — Proc. Am. Acad. xi. 

 121, & Brew. & Wats. Bot. Calif, i. 3. A. alplna/Uook. Fl. Bor.-Am. i. 5; Torr. & 

 Gray, Fl. i. 11, not L.* — High mountains of the Sierra Nevada (Lassen. Shasta, &c.),^ 

 California, first coll by Brewer, to the Cascades, and Northern Rocky Mountains near British 

 boundary to Kotzebue Sound. 



§ 2. EuANEMONE. Carpels with short and not plumose styles: no obvious 

 staminodes. — Anemone, Tourn. Inst. 275, t. 147. 



1 And recently redi.scovered in the same region by Rydberg. 



2 Further important literature: Pritzel, Anem. Revis. Linnrea, xv. 561-698; Prantl in Engl. & 

 Prantl, Nat. Pflanzenf. iii. Ab. 2, 61, 62; Britten, Ann. N. Y. Acad. Sci. vi. 215. 



3 Add syn. Pulsatilla hirsntissima, Britten, 1. c. 217. 



4 Add syn. Pulsatilla occidentalis, Freyn, Deutsclie Bot. Monatsschr. viii. 78. 



5 Southward to Mineral King, Tulare Co., Calif., Coville & Fmiston. 



