528 



RANUNCULACEAE 



purplish", oval or broadly oblong, 1 inch long; achenes pubescent, their tails 

 % to 1 inch long, at length recurved, forming a globose head I l / 2 to 2 inches in 

 diameter; receptacle minutely velvety. 



Alpine, 6000 to 10,000 feet : Sierra Nevada north to Mt. Shasta, thence west 

 to western Siskiyou. North to British Columbia. June. 



Locs. Little Kern Eiver, Purpus 1813; Alta Mdws., Sequoia Park, Hopping; Nevada Co., 

 Carpenter; Lassen Peak, Lemmon; Mt. Shasta, Brewer 1419; near Marble Mt., Jepson 2852. 



Ref. ANEMONE OCCIDENTALIS Wats. Proc. Am. Acad. 11: 121 (1876), mts. from British 

 Columbia to Mt. Shasta and Lassen Peak. 



B. Styles glabrous or nearly so ; achenes with glabrous or 

 pubescent tails. Subgenus EUANEMONE. 



2. A. baldensis L. Stems 1 to several, 4 to 15 inches high, arising from the 

 branching crown of a thick taproot, 1-flowered; herbage glabrate (sometimes 

 silky when young) ; leaves 3 times dissected into linear or oblong acute lobes, 

 the lobes 2 to 6 lines long; flowers white or "bluish", 1 to 1% inches broad; 

 sepals 5 or 6 to 8, elliptic or oval ; ovary hairy ; style almost capillary, glabrous 

 or nearly so. 



Hillslopes at 5000 to 7000 feet: northern Sierra Nevada; far North Coast 

 Kanges. June-July. 



Locs. Castle Peak, Heller 7099; Plumas Co.; Marble Mt., Chandler 1676; Salmon Mts., 

 Hall 6567. 



Refs. ANEMONE BALDENSIS L. Mant. PI. 1: 78 (1767), type European; Ulbrieh in Engler, 

 Bot. Jahrb. 37: 244, fig. 4C (1906). A. drummondii Wats. Bot. Cal. 2: 424 (1880), based 

 chiefly on Cal. spms. from northern Sierra Nevada and Scott Mts. A. calif ornica Eastw. 

 Proc. Cal. Acad. ser. 2, 6: 423 (1896), type loc. near Lot's Lake, w. Plumas Co., J. B. 

 JScupham. 



3. A. tuberosa Rydb. Stems 4 to 10 inches high, from a tuberous root, 1 or 

 rarely 2-flowered; leaves 3-foliolate, glabrate, the divisions ternately cleft and 

 toothed; flowers white or purplish, 7 to 9 lines broad; sepals 8 to 10, linear- 

 oblong; style filiform, straight, nearly as long as the ovary; achenes densely 

 woolly. 



Panamint Mts., ace. Coville; Arizona to Utah. 



Refs. ANEMONE TUBEROSA Rydb. Bull. Torr. Club, 29: 151 (1902). A. sphenophyUa Cov. 

 Contrib. U. S. Nat. Herb. 4: 56 (1893), not Poepp. 



4. A. deltoidea Hook. Stems 3 to 12 inches high ; rootstock filiform or whip- 

 like, several inches long ; basal leaves and involucral leaves 3-foliolate ; leaflets 

 broadly ovate or rhombic, crenately toothed above the entire base, some spar- 

 ingly incised, 1 to 3 inches long ; sepals commonly 5, white, 6 to 11 lines long ; 

 achenes hirsute-pubescent, with straight style. 



Woods, Humboldt Co. to Siskiyou Co., 600 to 5500 feet. Northward to "Wash- 

 ington. May-July. 



Loes. Hydesville, Tracy 2444 ; Camp Grant, Davy 5499 ; Pepperwood, Jepson 1913 ; Trinity 

 Summit, Jepson 2029 (common and forming beautiful spots on the forest carpet) ; Salmon Mts., 

 Hall 8675; near Marble Mt., Jepson 2848. Colestin, Siskiyou Mts., Ore., W. P. Gibbons. 



Ref. ANEMONE DELTOIDEA Hook. Fl. Bor. Am. 1: 6, t. 3, f. A (1829), type loc. woods, 

 Columbia River mouth, Douglas. 



A. OREGANA Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. 22: 308 (1887), type loc. Hood River, Ore. Involucral 

 leaves 3-divided; flowers blue. Oregon (Waldo, near the California line, Howell) and Wash- 

 ington. 



5. A. quinquefolia L. var. grayi Jepson. WOOD ANEMONE. Stems slender, 

 1-flowered, 4 to 12 in. high, from a thickish rootstock ; basal leaf simple, of reni- 

 form outline, trifid; involucral leaves 3-foliolate, petioled, the leaflets obovate, 

 entire at base, crenately toothed or incised above, the lateral usually oblique, 



JEPSON, Flora of California, vol. 1, pt. 5, pp. 497-528, Feb. 11, 1915. 



