4 RANUNCULACE.E. (CROWFOOT FAMILY.) 



8. C. Catesbyana, Pursh. Pubescent ; leaves teruate, quinate, or biter- 

 nate ; leaflets ovate or cordate-ovate, usually 3-lobed ; cymes few-flowered, 

 mostly compound or pauicled ; sepals white, tomentose. Dry sandy soil near 

 the coast. August. 



2. ANEMONE, L. WIND-FLOWER. 



Sepals 4-30, colored, imbricated in the bud, deciduous. Petals none. 

 Stamens indefinite, their filaments filiform. Ovaries mostly numerous. Ovule 

 solitary. Achenia even (not ribbed), capitate, compressed, pointed by the 

 short persistent style. Seed suspended. Perennial herbs, with naked stems 

 bearing at the summit 2-3 opposite or whoiied leaves, which form an invo- 

 lucre at the base of the 1-flowered peduncle. Leaves lobed or divided. 



* Stem simple, \-flowered. 



4 Involucre close under the flowers, small, sessile, resembling a calyx; stems 

 several, peduncle-like ; leaves cordate, 3- 5-lobed, persistent. 



1. A. Hepatica, L. (LIVER-LEAF.) Silky-villous ; stems spreading, 

 4'- 6' long ; leaves reuiform-cordate, the lobes rounded ; sepals 6-8, oblong, 

 generally purple; acheuia oval, longer than the curved styles. (Hepatica 

 triloba, Dill.) Dry rocky woods, chiefly in the upper districts. March. 



2. A. acutiloba, Lawson. Leaves cordate, 3- (rarely 5-) lobed, the 

 lobes acute ; sepals generally white ; otherwise like the preceding. Moun- 

 tains of Georgia, and northward. March. 



-t -*~ Involucre remote from the long-peduncled flower, lobed or divided. 



3. A. nemorosa, L. (Wooo ANEMONE.) Pubescent ; stem 4' - 8' high 

 from a slender scaly rootstock ; radical leaves (wanting on flowering plants) 

 ternately divided, the wedge-shaped divisions lobed and toothed, or the lateral 

 ones deeply 2-parted (Var. quinquefolia), those of the involucre similar, longer 

 than the petioles ; sepals white, oval, or oblong, |' long ; achenia few, oblong, 

 pubescent, pointed by the short hooked persistent style. Woodlands, moun- 

 tains. March -April. 



4. A. triflora, L. ? Divisions of the involucre ovate-lanceolate, entire, 

 finely serrate, acute, equalling or shorter than the petiole ; achenia numerous. 

 Mountains of Georgia. March. 



5. A. Caroliniana, Walt. Stem 3' - 1 0' high, from a globular stolonifer- 

 ous tuber ; radical leaves ternately divided into linear toothed divisions ; in- 

 volucre small, sessile, 3 - 5-lobed ; peduncle long, pubescent; sepals 10-30, 

 oblong-linear, white, the outer ones dotted with purple ; achenia numerous in 

 an oblong head, woolly. (A. heterophylla, Nutt., with coarser leaves and green- 

 ish flowers.) Dry woods, chiefly in the upper districts. March -April. 



* * Stem cymosely branched, bearing a 2-Ieared involucel, and a single long- 



peduncled flower at each joint. 



6. A. Virginiana, L. (WIND-FLOWER.) Hirsute or villous, 2 -3 

 high ; radical leaves loug-petioled, broadly cordate, twice 3-lobed, the divis- 

 ions acutely lobed and toothed ; involucres petioled, deeply 3-parted ; sepals 

 5, greenish, the two outer ones lanceolate, acute, the inner obovate ; achenia 

 woolly, in an oblong head. Dry woods in the upper districts. July -Aug. 



