BANUNCULACEAE 8 



VIRGINIAN ANEMONE. 



Stem 9 to 12 or 18 inches high. Radical leaves on petioles 6 to 12 inches long, 

 parted into 3 subsessile trifid leaflets. Sepals greenish-white. Carpdt clothed with 

 a whitish dense wool, by which, at maturity, they are often suspended -from the 

 receptacle in ragged dangling clusters. 

 Hob. Borders of woods; fence-rows, &c. frequent. Fl. June, July. Fr. Sept. 



3. HEPAT'ICA, Dillen. 



[Gr. Hepar, the liver; from a fancied resemblance in the leaves.] 

 Involucre of 3 simple leaflets, close to the flower, resembling sepals. 

 Flowers like Anemone, single, on hairy scapes. Leaves all radical. 



1. II. triloba, Chaix. Leaves subreniform-cordate, with 3 ovate 



obtuse or rounded lobes. 



THREE-LOBED HEPATICA. Liver-wort. Liver-leaf. 



Leaves on petioles 3 to 5 inches long. Scapes several, 4 to 6 inches long, silky- 

 villous. Involucre villous externally. Sepals petal-like, blue or purplish, rarely 

 white. 

 Hob. Open woodlands : common. Fl. April. Fr. May, June. 



Obs. This plant acquired some notoriety among the nostrum- 

 mongers, a few years since, as a remedy for pulmonary consumption ; 

 but it seems to have fallen into that neglect which awaits every 

 medicine of exaggerated virtues. 



4. THAMC'TRlIJIf , L. 



[A name of obscure derivation.] 



Often dioicous or polygamous : Sepals 4 or 5, to 8 or 10, petal-like, 

 caducous. Carpels 4 to 15, ribbed or grooved, tipped by the short 

 style. Perennials, with decompound leaves. 



t Stem-leaves forming an involucre at summit; root a duster of tubers; flowers per- 

 fect; sepals 8 or 10. 



1. T. anemonoides, MX. Leaflets obtusely 3-lobed; flowers 

 few in a simple umbel. 



ANEMONE-LIKE THALICTRUM. Rue Anemone. 



Root bearing a fascicle of 4 or 5 fleshy oblong tubers. Radical leave* biternate. 

 Scapes 2 or 3, slender, often purple, 4 to 6 or 8 Inches long. Umbel 3- to 6-rayed. 

 Sepals white, or tinged with purple. 

 Hab. Open woodlands, and clearings : common. FL April, May. Fr. June. 



j-f Stem-leaves scattered; root fibrous; flowers dioicous or polygamous; sepals 4 or 5. 



2. T. df oleum, L. Leaves all with common petioles; leaflets 

 5 to 7-lobed; flowers dioicous; filaments capillary. 



DIOICOUS THALICTRUM. Early Meadow-Rue. 



Plant often purplish. Stem 12 to 18 inches high, sparingly branched at summit. 

 Leaves mostly triternate; leaflets roundish-reniform, thin. Flowers in terminal 

 compound panicles. Sepals mostly 4, pale violet-purple. 

 Hab. Rich, rocky, hilly woods : frequent. Fl. April, May. Fr. June. 



3. T. Cor il lit i , L. Stem-leaves without common petioles ; leaf- 

 lets 3-lobed; flowers polygamous; filaments subclavate. 



Also, T. rugosum, Ait. and Fl. Cestr. ed. 2. p. 334. 

 CORNUTUS'S THALICTRUM. Meadow Rue. 



