36 CROWFOOT FAMILY. 



C. Pitcheri, Torr. & Gray. Wild from S. Ind. to Kans. and Tex., 

 has a flower much like the preceding, but the tails of the akenes are fili- 

 form and naked, or slightly hairy, but not feathery. 



C. crispa, Linn. Calyx cylindraceous below, upper part bluish ; sepals 

 with broad, thin wavy margins ; tails of akenes silky or smooth. Va. 

 and S. ; also cult. 



2. Flowers solitary ; low, erect herbs. 



C. ochrolefcca, Ait. PALE C. Wild from Long Island S., but 

 scarce ; has ovate silky leaves and dull silky flowers on long stalks ; tails 

 of akenes very feathery. 



C. Fremonti, Wats. Leaves thick and often coarsely toothed ; sepals 

 purple, woolly on the edge ; tails short, hairy, or smooth. Mo. and Ivans., 

 the western representative of the preceding. 



3. Flowers small, white, panicled. 

 * Herbaceous, erect. 



C. recta, Linn. UPRIGHT VIRGIN'S BOWER. 3-4 high, with large 

 panicles of white flowers in early summer ; leaves pinnate ; leaflets ovate 

 or slightly heart-shaped, pointed, entire. Eu. 



* * Woody, climbing. 



C. F/dmmu/a, Linn. SWEET-SCENTED V. Flowers perfect, with 

 copious sweet-scented flowers at midsummer in small and rather simple 

 panicles ; sepals woolly on outside near the edge only ; leaflets 3-5 or 

 more of various shapes, often lobed or cut. 



C. Vit&lba, Linn. Flowers perfect, green ish- white ; sepals woolly on 

 both surfaces ; leaves pinnate, of 5 ovate leaflets. S. Eu. 



C. Virginiana, Linn. COMMON WILD V. Flowers dioecious, late in 

 summer ; leaflets 3, cut-toothed or lobed. 



C. panicu/ata, Thunb., from Japan, and now becoming popular, hardy 

 N., has large panicles of small, white, fragrant, perfect flowers in mid- 

 summer, and 3-7 small mostly cordate-ovate, acute leaflets. 



2. ANEMONE, ANEMONE, WINDFLOWER. (Greek, shaken by 

 the wind, because growing in windy places, or blossoming at the windy 

 season.) y. Erect herbs. Sepals 4-20. (Lessons, Figs. 233, 343.) 



1. Long hairy styles form feathery tails to the akenes. Flowers large, 

 purple, in early spring. 



A. Pu/satil/a, Linn. PASQUE FLOWER of Europe. Cult, in some 

 flower-gardens, has the root-leaves finely thrice- pinnately divided or cut ; 

 otherwise much like the next. 



A. patens, var. Nuttalliana, Gray. WILD P. Prairies, 111., Mo., and 



root appearing later, and twice or thrice ternately divided and cut. 



2. Short styles not making long tails, but only naked or hairy tips. 



* Cult, species, exotic, with tuberous or woody rootstocks and very large 

 flowers. 



A. coronaria, Linn. Leaves cut into many fine lobes ; sepals 6 or 

 more, broad and oval ; and 



A. hortensis, Thor., perhaps a var. of preceding, with leaves less cut 

 into broader wedge-shaped divisions and lobes, and many longer and 

 narrow sepals, are the originals of the spring-flowered, mostly double or 

 semi-double, GARDEN ANEMONES of many colors, 



