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Anemone mulTifida Poir. in Lam. Encycl. Suppl.,vol. 

 1, p. 364. 1810. 

 This species is readily distinguished from the pre- 

 ceding by its sessile or short-petioled involucral leaves, red 

 sepals and globose or oval head of fruit. It is included by 

 Prof. Bessey in his contributions to the Flora of Iowa, p. 

 90, giving the locality and note, "Burlington — rare." It 

 is to be presumed that he includes it on the authority of one 

 Rev. Isaiah Reid, of Nevada who at one time resided at 

 Burlington and collected plants in that vicinity and after- 

 wards sent Prof. Bessey a partial list of the plants of Bur- 

 lington, Des Moines county. As the range of this species 

 as given by Britton and Brown is north and west of our 

 limits and as no other collector has found or recorded it we 

 very much doubt its occurrence. Anemone multifida DC. 

 of Gray's Manual, A. multifida of authors, not Poiret, so 

 state late writers who claim the proper name to be A. 

 globosa Nutt. ex Pritz in Linnaea 15:673, 1841. 



ft Leaves of the involucre slender-petioled; sepals 5—8, usu- 

 ally silky beneath. 



Anemone cylindrica Gray, Ann. Lye. N. Y., vol. 

 3, p. 221. 1836. Long-fruited Anemone. 



Stem slender, branching at the involucre, 1-2 feet 

 high, silky-pubescent; basal leaves tufted, long-petioled, 

 3— 5-parted, divisions cuncatc-obovate or cuncate-oblancco- 

 late, narrow; involucral leaves 4-18, 3-divided, the di- 

 visions cuneate-lanceolate, cleft, toothed toward the apex; 

 flowers 2-6, on exserted naked peduncles, sometimes one- 

 involucellate ; head of fruit cylindrical, one inch long; 

 achenes compressed, pubescent, tipped with the minute 

 styles. 



This species is rather common on prairies and in hilly 

 woods, blooming in June and July, and is widely distrib- 

 uted. Specimens in our collection are from Winneshiek, 

 Johnson, Decatur, Union, Adams, Montgomery, Ringgold, 



