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2. H. acutlloba DC. Leaves with 3 ovate and pointed lobes, or sometimes 

 6-lobed ; those of the involucre acute or acutish. (H. acuta Britton.) Woods, 

 w. Que., southw. through w. N. H. to Ga., Mo., and Minn., more abundant 

 westw. ; York, Me. (Bicknell). Passes into the preceding. 



8. ANEMONE [Tourn.] L. ANEMONE 



Sepals few or many, petal-like. Petals none, or in no. 1 resembling abortive 

 stamens. Achenes pointed or tailed, flattened, not ribbed. Seed suspended. 

 Perennial herbs with radical leaves ; those of the stem 2 or 3 together, oppo- 

 site or whorled, and forming an involucre remote from the flower ; peduncles 

 1-flowered, solitary or umbellate. (The ancient Greek and Latin name, a cor- 

 ruption of Na'mdn, the Semitic name for Adonis, from whose blood the crimson- 

 flowered Anemone of the Orient is said to have sprung.) 



1. PULSATf LLA Pers. Carpels numerous in a head, with long hairy styles 

 which in fruit form feathery tails, as in Clematis ; flower large, usually 

 with some minute or indistinct gland-like abortive stamens answering to 

 petals. 



1. A. patens L., var. Wolfgangiana (Bess.) Koch. (PASQOE FLOWER.) Silky- 

 villous ; flower erect, solitary ; leaves ternately divided, the lateral divisions 

 2-parted, the middle one stalked and 3-parted ; segments of the leaves and ses- 

 sile involucre deeply cleft into narrowly linear and acute lobes ; sepals 5-7, pur- 

 plish blue to whitish (15-35 mm. long), spreading when in full anthesis. (Var. 

 Nuttalliana Gray ; Pulsatilla hirsutissima Britton.) Prairies, Wise., 111., Tex., 

 north w. and westw. March, Apr. (Eu., Siber.) 



2. AN EM6NE proper. Styles short, not plumose. Staminodia none. 

 * Achenes densely long-woolly, compressed; involucre far below the flower. 

 -- Sootstock tuberous ; sepals usually 10-20 ; style filiform. 



2. A. caroliniana Walt. Stem 7-15 cm. high ; root-leaves once or twice 

 3-parted or cleft ; involucre 3-parted, its wedge-shaped divisions 3-cleft ; sepals 

 10-20, oblong-linear, purple or whitisn ; head of fruit ellipsoid. Dak. to 111., 

 Fla., and Tex. May. A. DECAPETALA Ard., said to reach e. Kan., is doubt* 

 fully distinct, its strongest character being the greater prevalence of simply ter- 

 nate basal leaves with crenate uncleft leaflets. 



i- t- Rootstock not tuberous ; sepals usually 5-8 ; styles filiform. 



3. A. parvifl6ra Michx. Stem 1-3 dm. high, from a slender rootstock, 1- 

 flowered ; rooHeaves 3-parted, their broadly wedge-shaped divisions crenate- 

 incised or lobed ; involucre 2-3-leaved ; sepals 5 or 6, oval, white, with bluish 

 bases ; head of fruit globular. Wet limestone rocks, Lab. to Alaska, s. to e. 

 Que., Ont., Minn., Col., and Ore. May-Sept. (Siber.) 



4. A. multffida Poir. Stems from a branching caudex, silky -hairy (1-4 dm. 

 high); principal involucre 2-3-leaved, bearing one naked and one or two 2-leaved 

 peduncles ; leaves of the involucre short-petioled, similar to the root-leaves, 

 twice or thrice 3-parted and cleft, their divisions linear ; sepals (sometimes 

 numerous) obtuse, red, greenish yellow or whitish ; head of fruit spherical or 

 ovoid. (A. Hudsoniana Richards.) Gravelly and ledgy (calcareous) shores 

 and banks, e. Que. to Alaska, s. to N. B., n. Me., n. Vt., n. N. Y., Mich., 

 S. Dak.; and in the ints. to Ariz. June. (Extra-trop. S. A.) 



- *- -- Taller, commonly branching above or producing two or more peduncles / 

 involucral leaves long-petioled ; sepals 5-8, silky or downy beneath, oval or 

 oblong; style subulate. (THIMBLEWEEDS.) 



5. A. cyllndrica Gray. Slender, pubescent ; flowers 2-6, on very long up- 

 right naked peduncles ; involucral leaves twice or thrice as many as the pedun- 

 cles, 3-divided ; their divisions wedge-lanceolate, the lateral 2-parted, the middle 

 3-cleft ; lobes cut and toothed at the apex ; sepals 5, rather obtuse, greenish 



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