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11. Hydras'tis. Petals none. Flower solitary. Sepals 3, petal-like, greenish- 

 white. Carpels 12 or more, forming a head of crimson 1-2-seeded 

 berries in fruit. Stem low, from a knotted yellow root-stock. Leaves 

 simple, lobed. 



1. CL-EM'ATIS, L. VIKGIN'S BOWEB.; 



C. Virginia'na, L. (COMMON VIRGIN'S BOWER.) A woody - 

 stemmed climber. Flowers in panicled clusters, often dioecious, 

 white. Leaves of 3 ovate leaflets, which are cut or lobed. 

 Feathery tails of the achenes very conspicuous in the autumn. 

 Along streams and in swamps. 



a. ANEMO'NE, L. ANEM'ONE. 



1. A. cylin'drica, Gray. (LONG-FRUITED A.) Carpels very 

 numerous, in an oblong woolly head about an inch long. Pe- 

 duncles 2-6, long, upright, leafless. Stem-leaves in a whorl, twice 

 or thrice as many as the peduncles, lony-petioled. Sepals 5, 

 greenish-white. Plant about two feet high, clothed with silky 

 hairs. Dry woods. 



2. A. Virginia'na, L. (VIRGINIAN A.) Very much like the 

 last, but larger. Also, the central peduncle only is naked, the 

 others having each a pair of leaves about the middle, from whose 

 axils other peduncles occasionally spring. Sepals greenish. Head 

 of carpels oval or oblong. Dry rocky woods and river-banks. 



3. A. Pennsylva'nica, L. (A. dichotoma, L. t in Macoun's 

 Catalogue.) (PENNSYLYANIAN A.) Carpels fewer and the head 

 not woolly, but pubescent and spherical. Stem-leaves sessile, 

 primary ones 3 in a whorl, but only a pair of smaller ones on each 

 side of the flowering branches. Radical leaves 5-7-parted. Sepals 

 5, obovate, large and white. Plant hairy, scarcely a foot high. 

 Low meadows. 



4. A. nemoro'sa, L. (WooD A. WIND-FLOWER. ) Plant not 

 more than six inches high, nearly smooth, one-flowered. Stem- 

 leaves in a whorl of 3, long-petioled, 3-5-parted. Sepals 4-7, 

 oval, white, or often purplish on the back. Moist places. 



3. HEPAT/ICA, Dill. LIVER-LEAF. HEPATICA. 

 1. H. acutil'oba, DC. (SHARP-LOBED H.) Leaves with 3 

 (sometimes 5) acute lobes, appearing after the flowers. Petioles 

 silky -hairy. Woods in spring. 



